BN FANS, A QUESTION ABOUT HANDRAILS COLORS

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I have several Atlas BN engines that I have picked up through collection buying and they are in excellent condition except…for the handrails.

There are GP’s and U whatevers and they have both green and black handrails on them so I am confused here.

My questions is…are the handrails on BN units supposed to be green or black, or did they use both? I’m still at a loss as to how people can destroy a set of handrails on a locomotive but that’s another topic.

Thanks for any info you can provide.

Mark

WGAS

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Mark,

Original deliveries to BN were painted as follows:

EMD - Black handrails with white safety paint in the ends. Number boards - white numbers on black background.

GE - Cascade Green handrails with white safety paint on the ends. Number boards - black numbers on white. This varied, and I suspect BN kept trying to get white numbers on a black background but gave up after a while.

Jim

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Thanks for the info here Jim, I appreciate it very much as I need to order the handrails for these units and wanted to get them “right” from the “getgo”.

Thanks again, Mark

WGAS