4-6-0's

[siemer]

Anyone know when we'll get an on-line image of the On30 4-6-0?

[Frisco]

I'm still wating for a picture of the painted unlettered with stripes.

[siemer]

Very nice stuff!  Thanks.

[Royce Wilson]

Was the boiler on the green version russian iron or black?


                                                                     Royce Wilson

[Dusten Barefoot]

The boiler of the locomotive has always been a gun metal blue....close to black. Today at Tweetsie Railroad the boiler jacket is green for tourist colors. I would love to see #12 fully restored back to her original state as in the 30s look.
Rock On!
Dusten

[Royce Wilson]

So was the boiler just paited gun metal blue or was it American iron similar to russian iron. I seem to have read somewhere that the crews polished them.

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                                                                   Royce Wilson

[ebtnut]

OK--"Russia Iron"  is really a metal finishing technique.  It doesn't matter where the iron itself comes from.  IIRC, Russia iron was made by stacking the plates together with powered carbon in between and hammering the stack of metal.  The powdered carbon joined with the surface of the iron and gave it a polished sheen that resisted rusting.  The sheen could be anything from silver grey through light blue, probably depending on the grade of iron and/or any impurities in the carbon powder. 

[Dusten Barefoot]

The ET&WNC's 4-6-0 boilers were always a gun metal blue. Just like the pictures above. The boiler was never painted; not as i know of anyway. The boiler domes were painted black through out the career's of the 4-6-0s. The cab in the teens through early thirtys were black with ET&WNC underneath the cab windows, and underneath the lettering was the #. During the mid 30s the 4-6-0s got a new scheme. The one above in green is the new scheme they got. After Decemeber 7th 1941 The ten wheelers got a new coat of paint this time black and gold; from my understanding. Gold trim around the # in the middle of the black cab and gold lettering on the tender. Through out the whole time the boiler stayed gun metal blue . The scheme of White and Black for #11 is correct other than the colors of the trim and lettering.

Rock On!
Dusten