I am woorking on a set of U33c's in the D&H's quick repaint scheme-painting over the EL maroon with blue. The trouble is that I can't find a photo of the rear end. Howvwas this painted? Left yellow? Scare stripes? Does anyone have a photo to share? Thanks!
Here's a picture of the rear of an E-L U33C:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=51334&nseq=6
You might not have looked there, because the site is known more for "scenics", but I often find rosterish infor there, too.
Ed
Thanks, I've not been to that site before. I will poke around. I know that the EL locos had the yellow rear, but I'm wondering what the D&H did to the paint, ie stencil over the EL lgo w/d&h shield and call it good, or paint over with blue and then a shield? Or scare stripes? Thanks again.
Oh, I see.
Well, now it's way over my head. Good luck. The info's gotta be out there somewhere.
I think they have a pic of what you're after in the new Morning Sun book about Dereco. (I'd look, but I don't currently have the book.) Sorry that's not much help.
I found this nugget that looks like they left the rear yellow: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1027827 you can just see a bit of the rear on the third unit.
I would then assume that they replaced the EL logo with a DH shield...but what size?
I believe they just patch painted the yellow to cover the logo. And no shield.
Jay
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I was wondering if they did the same or similar to the SD45's : http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=846458 or http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3063866 the first looks like a faded shield, the second, just a herald patch out...
On all three, the solid yellow nose was painted solid blue to match the burgandy stripe paint-over. The top yellow border stripe on the side was brought down the nose in a "V" like the typical D&H nose stripe.
751 and 753 both had nose headlights, so a small shield was placed under the headlight and just above the yellow "V". 752 had no nose headlight, so it received a large D&H shield on the nose.
On the battery box doors below the cab windows, all three units retained the burgandy "Radio Equipped" lettering.
I have pictures of all three numbers both with and without small shields on the cab sides. After thoughts ? ....
The rear of these units is solid yellow. I can't seem to locate my rear shots at the moment to verify what (if any) was on the rear for heralds of each individual unit though.
Mark.
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Thanks for the info. Pics appear to be as plentiful as hen's teeth!
I posed the same question on the Model Railroad Hobbyist discussion forum, and a helpful soul searched his library and found that on page 19 of Delaware & Hudson Bridge Line Freight 1960 - 1983, Volume 2 South End by Dominic Bourgeois, there is a picture that suggests that the rear end was solid yellow with no shield or hearald of any kind. Thanks for everyone's input! Off to the paint booth!