Flat or Gloss on Gauge Hands?

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Abram,
  I have one of those Ashcroft Gauges as well and mine is definately flat  black with flat black numbers and a what looks to be/was flat white  gauge face.....I'll take some pics once I get home this weekend....my  gauge is supposed to have came off of Y6b 2174 but I see no proof as to  what locomotive it came from....it was given to me by my grandfather.
  
  Shawn

nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org wrote:     There being no takers on the question of flat-vs.-gloss  paint on gauge hands, I'll offer up the following information, which  comes from as good a source as we're liable to find in the year 2006.
   
  My friend, Sam Leach (presently a Train Dispatcher,) has worked  around steam (locomotive and stationary) for three decades.  For a  number of years he ran the steam power house at a large hospital in our  area, and for three decades he has repaired, fired and run a  number of steam engines on short line railroads.
   
  Sam reports that all paint on all gauges he has ever come in  contact with, whether in locomotive or stationary service, has been of  flat surface.  This includes the hands, the numerals on the gauge  dial, and the graduation marks.  Sam says he heard years ago from  the veterans the same story I heard, viz. that gloss paint was avoided  as it might lead to glare and a potential misreading of the gauge.
   
  Until we get other information definitively related to N&W practices, I'm moving my project ahead based on this report.
   
  -- abram burnett
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