Hello, looked on the KCHS site and could not find any info there. I am trying to find out when the KCS started using the Brunswick Green/red yellow stripe scheme on their passenger cars. And what was the paint scheme in the 30s and 40s behind their steam engines. Thanks guys
That paint scheme was inaugurated with the Southern Belle in 1940. You may find references to the Flying Crow being dieselized in 1938, but don't believe it. Yes, they bought the first E-3A built, but it spent time as a demonstrator first--wearing even more colorful EMD paint and an EA/E-1A style flush headlight. That wasn't the only E-3 they had, but if any were delivered before 1939, don't count on them arriving before Christmas. Before that, any KCS pics are rare, and color pics are very rare. Many look like the standard Pullman green most roads used through the twenties.
hummm next time i roll through Oklahoma ill stop at my fav restaurant a passenger car from the southern belle. i believe it was green and some other color. they have been restoring it and have all the former pics in a binder there. by the way they have great burgers too.....
