Thursday, July 09, 2015

And so it begins: B&LE #902 Sheds Orange for Red

Received the following via email from our correspondent in NW Pennsylvania.

Here's the first orange and black Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad locomotive to be dressed in the full paint scheme of its parent company, Canadian National Railway...plus 'BLE' sub-lettering,: 



Photo by Joe Ferguson on 4-21-15
https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/locoslides/17230319815 


But, the black roof and everything from the retro-reflective yellow frame stripe, on down, remain the same (black)! 



Photo by SiYao Wang on 1-7-10
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1914464


Photo by Jon Clark on 8-22-06
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1318408