Red locomotive

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I like the name.

Gordon Hamilton

On 5/27/2020 10:18 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
>
> Our British cousins had a lot of red locomotives. The London, Midland 
> and Scottish Railway’s streamlined Coronation class from the late 
> 1930s were perhaps the prettiest. This is a photo of one of them, 
> named “Duchess of Hamilton”:
>
> A black and red train at a train station Description automatically 
> generated
>
> The passenger coaches were painted to match the color and stripes on 
> the locomotive. The Coronation class made over 2500HP at the drawbar 
> and were easily capable of more than 100MPH on their runs between 
> London and Glasgow. “Duchess” and her matching coaches came to the US 
> in 1939 for a national tour ending at the New York Worlds Fair. She 
> was stuck in the US for the duration when WW2 broke out in Europe.
>
> The first five locomotives in the class were painted light blue with 
> silver stripes as were their passenger cars. That color scheme was 
> just spectacular.
>
> Rob Doorack
>
> North Andover, MA
>
> *From:* NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org> *On Behalf 
> Of *NW Mailing List
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 26, 2020 4:05 PM
> *To:* NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Red locomotive
>
> Bill
>
> Along the lines of THIS South African 4-8-4.
>
> AKA The Red Devil,
>
> Built in 1981.  42 inch gauge.  91 ft 6 in
>
> Pretty hefty for narrow gauge
>
> image1.JPG
>
> However; You propose different striping.
>
> Sent from my digital telegraph key
>
> Jim S
>
>
> On May 26, 2020, at 15:30, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org 
> <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
>
>     (snip)
>
>         I've attached a photo of train 13 at Shenandoah Jct c. 1950.
>         The BMh is coupled next to a PRR B60. Interesting to see the
>         resemblance of the two. This was a from a slide set sold by
>         Audio-Visual Designs in the 1970's. The color has shifted with
>         age.
>
>     (snip)
>
>     I know I will be chased out of town, but looking at this
>     color-shifted photo again today got me thinking a red loco with a
>     wide gold stripe would have looked nice. Carry the stripe through
>     the train and even better.
>
>     OK, I will go back on my meds.
>
>     Take care
>     Bill
>
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