Re: TOC (ca. 1900) locomotive colors

Posted by Michael York on
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Don't forget Aluminum!  

I have a hunch that most of the "white" lettering and striping on locomotives was actually aluminum.  This is true in the Baldwin order books, and I know it was true with some railroads in the 1950s.