I have about six or eight months left to go before completing the route I'm working on for Open Rail/MSTS and I'm starting to get ideas about the next route I'd like to do.
I just finished building a set of Central Vermont 2-10-4s and I guess the steam bug has bitten as I'm starting to look at a 1940ish DAR route. One of the steam engines that caught my eye a few years ago was the color shot of a maroon DAR D-6-b sitting in someone's driveway and I always thought that would be a nice project. So now I have a bunch of questions.
Wat the entire class painted this way, I see they were (re) numbered to 520-538?
Check out the wiki colour page for information on colours through the years. The Tuscan disappeared in 1942. In pre-CPR years the colour is generally described as magenta but I suspect once CPR took over the brighter magenta bowed to the CPR Tuscan (good old maroon). I heard the pre-CPR colours described in a book once in a book as Straw Yellow and Magenta.
D10h's were another batch of locos built by MLW and CLW that have at least 5 units (999, 1018, 1041, 1089, 1090, 1092, ) on the DAR in 1942 including the popular No. 999. There are also blueprints available for this series: http://www.dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?title=Category:D10h
I still would like to do a batch of DAR and CPR D-10s as they were so common on the entire CP system. Is there any evidence that the tuscan red was applied to any of the D-10s or just the D-6s... it's hard to tell in black and white photos but there is a shot of 1014 in black and white with the gold lettering and "framing" on the tender and around th cab number but in a 19490 color shot this is the same lettering on a black engine and tender... not tuscan.
Well for sure we know No. 537 was painted that way.
Here my best guess on some B&Ws that we probably Tuscan Red based on Silver smoke boxes, pin-striping around the tender AND cab and nameplates.
No. 504 (D6a)
No. 530 (D6b)
I don't have time to go through them all but considering this was still the heyday on the DAR with wartime time traffic I think it's safe to assume that any of the locos I listed before would have been painted in Tuscan Red. In fact I doubt we will ever know for sure so have fun!
