Hello,
I am currently restoring and detailing a 1/8 scale live steam model of a Chicago & Illinois Midland 4-4-0. (The model engine was built 40 some years ago and is very close to the C&IM engine; whether the builder made it that way or not, I don’t know)
I am trying to determine if the logo on the side of the tender was yellow lettering or white. I know some of the freight engines in the 50’s used a white logo and their cabooses and diesels definitely used the yellow logo. The passenger engine appears to have a yellow logo on a photo I found on the internet from the collection of Don Ross; on a fuzzy video taken by John Szwajkart and on a painting by Fogg. The Golden West book on the railroad by Richard Wallin, Paul Stringham and John Szwajkart mentions that the red stripe was applied in 1945, but he says nothing about the color of the lettering in the logo.
Does anyone know for sure?
Thanks