Re: G3 Pacific paint scheme ( was Passenger car info wanted)
- From: "dhately" <d.hately@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:06:37 -0000
--- In cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jeff Pinchbeck" <jpinchbeck@...> wrote:
The G3g class is a mainline engine and would be found at the front of
almost anything. The G3g class was delivered in both freight and
passenger livery - engines 2388-2399 were passenger service Tuscan red
and gold leaf lettering; engines 2400-2417 in freight black panels and
gold paint lettering. The passenger service engines were reassigned to
freight service in the winter of 1941. Those engines would eventually
have been eventually repainted to freight lettering.
This discussion came up a long time ago and we didn't come up with a
conclusive answer as to how many G3s were painted in the passenger
maroon, grey and gold scheme. I think they all came out of CLC in
passenger colours. One might think that wartime austerity would not
allow for any extra expense but look at 2414 as an example. Built in
January 1943, someone told me this engine was always painted black with
gold lettering. I've since found a photo in "The Ontario and Quebec
Railway" by Donald M. Wilson, of 2414 at Tweed on Good Friday 1945 and
she is definitely in passenger colours. It would be interesting to see
a builders photo of any G3e to G3j in freight colours when new. There
is no arguement that many were painted that way in the 1950s as even a
few hudsons lost their passenger colours.
Doug Hately
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