Hellow guys, another question:
maybe someone will say better post at MR - but the required info is of prototye.
As far as I know Tenshodo delivered GN N-3 engines in an all-black paint sometimes - that means complete black including smokebox and firebox. My question is if that is correct/ some of the real engines were painted like that, maybe also with red cab roof.
Hope you can help.
Thanks and greetings.
my understanding is that the final paint scheme for steam on the GN (perhaps the last 5-10 years) was a basic black.
Randy Johnson
The Tenshodo ‘dip job’ paint is not very correct. Even during the
last decade of steam on the GN, the smokeboxes were varied shades
of graphite-some lighter-some darker. The lower parts of the fireboxes
also had this coloration. Both areas are very high-heat and paint doesn’t
last there or protect as well as graphite.
Again many thanks.