Striped Driver Tires ?

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Perhaps for the N&W.  The VGN striped engine wheels when steam locos were overhauled and the striping remained visible for some time after.  IIRC, they even cleaned the striping on the PAs from time to time.  I think that a number of other southern roads did so also.  For along time, I thought that most railroads did so.

pete groom (who lived by the VGN ’49 -’51)
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>  Driver striping was not standard and appears to have been done for a few select builder's photos. It was not even standard for builder's photos.
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> Jim Nichols
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> On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 3:01 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> I am looking at what is most likely an "as built" photo of Eng 2100 (N&W photo.)  The driving wheel tires are painted white, as are the commensurate circumference areas on the pony and trialing truck wheels.
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> 1.)  Did the N&W apply driver striping to all newly built engines, or was this something done just for sake of the builder's photo?
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> 2.)  If driver striping was standard practice, when did the practice cease?  In the 1950s, I never saw an engine with white driver striping.
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