Mystery Solved after nine months of research!!

Model Railroader Prototype information for the modeler
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I my quest to model SP 0-6-0 1041 a class S1, assigned to the Sacramento depot circa 1926 it was included among the few to recieve special paint. The boiler was blue-green with nickle silver trim but there was something different about how the domes were finished. After persuing all available sources, i’ve discovered that the domes were wrapped in polished brass sheet, a treatment also applied to several classes of T’s. For want of color photographs. Now I can complete the project!!! It will indeed be one eye catching engine… For those so interested in how I arrived at the selected boiler color, i’m using a vintage SP mixing chart for the Blue-green used on several MT’s. If anyone wants to nickpick, get a time machine and prove me wrong!!

Some backround as to source for the kit: The model is being built using a S scale BTS Ma & PA Baldwin 0-6-0 kit, this is a brass kit, that with the exception of the cab sides and some minor details is a exact match for SP use. The slope back tender will be converted to oil and be shortened two feet to match it’s stubby protoype. An SP oversight is causing me some indecision, SP shopped the 1041 without a electric headlight conversion, an oversight that was corrected several weeks later, which version do I model??

Dave

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Congratulations on the “viola” moment in your research, and good luck on the project.

Of course, when you’re done, we want pictures. [:D]

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Oh I’d go with the corrected version, Dave, otherwise you are modeling a very tiny time frame and since it is evident that prototype accuracy is obviously important to you, you could go nuts trying to track stuff down to that period of a few weeks before they corrected the oversight. Of course if that kind of limitation appeals, go for it but otherwise I think having a period to model that can be measured in months or years rather than days makes the most sense.
That sounds like it is going to be quite the conversation piece when the work is done.
Dave Nelson

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and here i thought you were talking bout something else that takes nine months. figgered you were gonna say that there was a new boss or your RR and that you were gonna have to revamp it for Thomas the Tank Engine.

congrats on the loc. if it were me i’d do both versions

tom