k-27

[Chatzi473]

I know the k-27 will be in RIO GRANDE and RIO GRANDE SOUTHERN but  want to know what #s and if they weill be green boilers? and any othere info like that.

[amdaylight]

According to Walthers there will be one in the green boiler # 455 (part #83097) and one painted but unlettered with the green boiler (part #83098) and then four in black, two with the D&RGW toilet seat herald #453 with a doghouse, #464 without a doghouse , one with the flying Grande herald #463, one with the Sunrise RGS herald #455, and one paint black but unlettered. I hope this is some help.

Andre

[glennk28]

How about N de M?  a couple went there.  TGhen there's Knotts' Berry Farm and Huckleberry RR.  8^) 

[Charlie Mutschler]

The dog house on No. 453 is really quite specific to the last years of its service life, and would not be correct for the pre-1939 "bug" herald (the one which some refer to rather infelicitously  as 'the 'toilet seat').  Photos show No. 453 with the speed herald ('flying Rio Grande') in the summer of 1942 without the dog house, and a back-up light on the tender.  Later photos show the dog house, mounted sideways on the tender.  No. 453 was retired in December, 1953.  Photos of No. 453 indicate that she was shopped in the late spring / summer of 1941, so the old "bug" herald was on the tender until that point, when the overhaul and a new paint job were completed at Alamosa. 

Cheerfully anticipating. 
Charlie Mutschler
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