The green paint was a takeoff on Russia Iron boiler jacketing. Russia Iron was various colors depending upon the mineral content and there were some that were green or gray-green. K-27s were painted black with gold lettering in 1903 at Baldwin and never had any planished jacketing. Green paint was randomly applied to NG and SG locos - seems to have been a local option. I heard years back that Salida shops were partial to green but have no actual confirmation.

Dennis O'Berry

North County Narrow Guage

Quote from: AVM on October 25, 2007, 12:31:37 AM
With the price of SS and Brass, what do you think of powered aluminum tracks?   Is there a brand that is better then others?

I used Llagas Creek code 215 aluminum rail building my track 10 years ago because it is the cheapest metal. Aluminum oxidizes easily and I'm within ten miles of the Pacific...nothing battery power couldn't overcome. I did have track power for a short time but it was too much trouble for me.

Dennis O

Quote from: bobgrosh on September 01, 2007, 04:03:08 PM
That was it, 15? None to anyone else?

Were any of those 15 later  sold to other lines?

Those engines were Baldwin catalog engines - nothing special about them in the slightest. Stock components were assembled to produce a locomotive specific to meet the customers performance requirements.Only stock variant in the order was the D&RG specifying they be painted black with gold lettering/numerals. Stock colors in 1903 were olive green w/aluminum lettering/numerals. Baldwin sold alot of export engines and there may have been similar supplied to other customers.

Actually the stacks are not straight but taper in towards the top - many manufacturers got that wrong over the years. Briefly looked the 453 model over at Portland and domes do not seem quite right (too narrow perhaps - or it might be my eyes)but a very impressive model.   Dennis O'Berry                                         

Quote from: Steve Stockham on August 30, 2007, 08:42:21 AM
Ummm.......(oh boy!) uh......guys? I hate to nit-pick right off the bat (especially since I have been waiting so long!) but that tapered stack is wrong! I checked through Dennis O'Berry's book, "The Mudhens" which has copious amounts of pictures of all of the K-27's and only found one picture with a tapered stack and that was of #463 when she was still a Vauclain compound engine in 1908! Every other picture shows a straight stack! How could Bachmann make such a glaring error??!! I sincerely hope that someone at Bachmann caught this early enough so that when the production models come out this will have been corrected! (If not, Accucraft makes a stack that would work in it's place.)