J - Class Headlights

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Well, Harry, since the subject is headlights, I'll guess that the West painting shows a double-sealed beam on the A.

But if this is the painting I think you're referring to (the one that Ron Basham commissioned from West) the thing that bothered me the most about it was that he had the Class A coming out of the spur that leads into the Boxley stone quarry!  I asked Ron why he would have West depict an A switching the quarry.  His response, if I remember correctly--and Ron is no longer with us to speak for himself--was that West just did it and he (Ron) didn't know what the picture would look like until he saw the finished product.

Sam Putney

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  Artist Robert West has a painting titled "Blue Ridge Depot".
  Anyone note a faux pas in that rendering ?  But the master
  of railroad artist, Howard Fogg,  painted 1218 passing a
  stop and stay signal.    Nothing wrong about the headlight,
  but where's the error ? 
                                                       Harry Bundy





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