Striped Driver Tires ?

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Jim - 

The M at Bristol that was fancied up was the 396.  It was done for the Bristol Centennial in 1956 (my Heavens – was that sixty years ago?).  It was done with the full impetus of the local MP bosses.  In fact, one of them laid out and produced two five-pointed stars for the cylinder heads to go with the white running board edges.  I think that probably company policy wasn’t that stringent at that late date.  This is the same company policy flouted by allowing Engineer Fitzhugh Nichols to put his own whistle on the Abingdon Branch engine.  

The 396 was not regular on the Branch, because it lacked a superheater, but it did get to West Jefferson at least once while it was duded up.  It was kinda like putting a pink ribbon on the tail of a plow mule.

EdKing

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Subject: Re: Striped Driver Tires ?

Many railroads did. N&W did not. While many roads also striped the running boards, N&W did not. The M's on the Abingdon Branch were an exception. The running boards probably were striped by some employee in Bristol who defied company policy on that one.


Jim Nichols



On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 7:16 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:




Perhaps for the N&W.  The VGN striped engine wheels when steam locos were overhauled and the striping remained visible for some time after.  IIRC, they even cleaned the striping on the PAs from time to time.  I think that a number of other southern roads did so also.  For along time, I thought that most railroads did so. 

pete groom (who lived by the VGN ’49 -’51) 


  Driver striping was not standard and appears to have been done for a few select builder's photos. It was not even standard for builder's photos.


  Jim Nichols



  On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 3:01 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:




  I am looking at what is most likely an "as built" photo of Eng 2100 (N&W photo.)  The driving wheel tires are painted white, as are the commensurate circumference areas on the pony and trialing truck wheels.

  1.)  Did the N&W apply driver striping to all newly built engines, or was this something done just for sake of the builder's photo?

  2.)  If driver striping was standard practice, when did the practice cease?  In the 1950s, I never saw an engine with white driver striping.

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