I enjoyed the article on the various colour schemes. I noticed the
unusual
effect of substituting a door from another locomotive in the photo on page 8
of CP 1406. Opposing colours line up on the left and lower sides of the
door, but there is not quite the same alignment on the right and upper
sides. Apparently the substituting door's stripes were painted at a
slightly different angle from that of the front of 1406. The effect would
have been the same if the door had been placed on CP 1404, also on the same
page.
In looking at the photos from the CPR Roster site, I see that CP 1412
was
painted, as of 1978, so that the stripes matched that of the substituting
door on 1406. I assume from this that the painter did not have precise
guidelines as to where he was to start painting the white stripes. Or is it
the angle to the horizontal? If he used a slightly lower angle, but started
the first stripe in the correct location, he would end up with this effect.
Did he start painting in the upper left hand corner and work down to the
lower right? (I am using the frame of reference of the viewer here, not the
frame of reference of the locomotive engineer. This is as a result of an
earlier discussion on one of the groups - perhaps this one - about which end
is up, or left or whatever, according to viewer or other.)
Dave Pottinger
