I just read on Railroadforums.com that Golden Pacific RR, (the company that is going to run the Reading 2100 someday here in Tacoma), has acquired the ex-Milwaukee Road #36A E-unit and is not only going to run it for head-end power to the passenger cars, but is also going to restore it to Milwaukee orange and maroon!!! Right now she's painted in Indiana RR silver and red as the #100, but soon will be back to her original colors AND #36A!! How sweet is that?!?!
It's great that the 36A will be preserved but for the record Union Pacific yellow and gray were the original and only colors for the E-9's on the Milwaukee Road.
Kurt- Bill is correct about the original colors. However, it would be really nice to see accurate O/M/B painted on the E unit. Boxcab E50
Well, that's kinda' what I thought too. But O/M/B is definetly better than you know who's yellow and gray! :zip:
At least MILW had the last blow by defacing Uncle Pete's colors with a REAL railroad name! Anything in MILW is good. Now, if we could convince someone to rebuild and re-electrify from Tacoma to Harlo.....
In my world the Milwaukee NEVER ran in armuck yellow and horrible mist grey. It was all just a bad dream......... -Mark
I think it should be painted up like the GN E7s that ran out of Seattle. More people would remember THAT railroad!! (now ducking for cover)
Omaha Orange and Pullman Green would look good rolling around, but it is originally Northern Pacific stomping grounds around Tacoma where she's gonna' run, so how 'bout Lowy two-tone green?!
A few weeks in the locomotive shop and BINGO you turn a F into a passenger unit when needed or turn a passenger unit into a freight unit when needed it was just hard to keep track of what the old freight unit number was or what passenger unit number was, since NP did it so often. Most railroads never changed the paint, unless it was wrecked or look really bad, or numbers. Just gearing of the traction motors sometimes. BTW the E-9 is now somewhere in Tacoma Also the GN really had 2 E-7 to start with but sold one to the SP&S the GN E-7 worked on the INTERNATIONAL to CANADA from SEATTLE and the SP&S E-7 bumped the 700's off the PORTLAND-SPOKANE passenger train
Right now Its parked by the what I think is the Paint shop it has all of the glass covered with plywood. And its looks like most of the jacket is back on 2100
OK, I'm probably gonna get stoned for this, but pre-Borg, the UP E-units were nice to look at (sez the guy who once rode behind said units back in the day, and has several pics of the E-units in Cheyenne). However, the yellow & gray belong only on UP engines. I understand why MILW had their Es painted the way they did, but IMNSHO orange, maroon & black would be classy. Kinda do it up like the steamers done up for Hiawatha service......
