OOOOPS! Sorry Alex and Norm:tb-wacky: I got a little mixed up when reading through the posts. Well, um, anyway Alex I do like seeing your pictures too!:tb-biggrin:
One of the divisions of Indian Railways had red and silver as a standard scheme. As usual in India, though, the colors were applied mostly to the cab and tender. I find it interesting that many North American railfans find non-black steam unattractive.
Steam locomotives in colors other than black were not unknown in North America. http://www.rrsites.com/royalhudson/images/Hudson02.jpg
It's ready to run now. Corman sent a man over to China to oversee the preparations for bringing it to the U.S. I heard somewhere else that it was brought to applicable FRA standards before being shipped.
We're used to the full fledged streamliner passenger color schemes. Which were native to North America. Boxcab E50
I'm just recalling a time on another forum when some railfans were discussing a tourist line's steam locomotive being painted in a version of an old blue passenger scheme. I can't recall, but the engine might actually have worn the scheme briefly in its first life. Anyway, several members complained about the scheme, disliking non-black steam!
I can't see it in the photos, but on another board someone said the middle drivers were blind. Seems logical. Anyone have any inside info? :tb-biggrin:
Here's a picture from a story in today's paper (technically yesterday's paper now I guess): As I said before I'm not a steam fan so I don't know if the picture helps, but this being an unusual event around here, I've been following it so I figured I'd post this in hopes it would answer your question. Here's a link to the story: http://www.kentucky.com/211/story/288913.html
I believe fitz was asking whether the middle drivers have flanges. I don't think I see them in that picture.
