BN FANS, A QUESTION ABOUT HANDRAILS COLORS

[Forty Niner]

I have several Atlas BN engines that I have picked up through collection buying and they are in excellent condition except.......for the handrails.

There are GP's and U whatevers and they have both green and black handrails on them so I am confused here.

My questions is.......are the handrails on BN units supposed to be green or black, or did they use both? I'm still at a loss as to how people can destroy a set of handrails on a locomotive but that's another topic.

Thanks for any info you can provide.

Mark

WGAS

[jrbernier]

Mark,

  Original deliveries to BN were painted as follows:

EMD - Black handrails with white safety paint in the ends.  Number boards - white numbers on black background.

GE - Cascade Green handrails with white safety paint on the ends.  Number boards - black numbers   on white.  This varied, and I suspect BN kept trying to get white numbers on a black background but gave up after a while.

Jim

[Forty Niner]

Thanks for the info here Jim, I appreciate it very much as I need to order the handrails for these units and wanted to get them "right" from the "getgo".

Thanks again, Mark

WGAS