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This model is just black, but PRR freight engines were painted Dark Green Locomotive Enamel (aka Brunswick Green), as were diesel passenger engines (E7, PA1, and I think E8 models) until about 1948 or '49.  Most steamers were also painted green, the exceptions being the 75 K4's, built by Baldwin Locomotive Works.  The PRR built so much of its own equipment like the 350 Brunswick Green K4's they built for themselves. There were also a few diesel switchers painted Tuscan for passenger switching operations in Sunnyside Yard on Long Island.   There are a thousand different anecdotes concerning Brunswick Green (55 gallons black, 1 gallon green. Or 5 gallons black, one quart green, one quart chrome yellow, and many others). In PRR times it was called Dark Green Locomotive Enamel and was standard for all locomotives from the 1880s on.   It was black with a copper oxide additive. The copper oxide had a green tinge to it which got greener with age. The first reference to Brunswick Green was on a Penn Central painting chart, which referred to the body color of the locomotive as Brunswick Green.  The paint scheme was not discontinued until 1952, from what I've been able to learn.

The wheel arrangement was widely used on passenger tank locomotives during the last three decades of the nineteenth and the first decade of the 

twentieth centuries.   The vast majority of 2-4-2 locomotives were tank engines, designated 2-4-2T.    The symmetrical wheel arrangement was well 

suited for a tank locomotive that is used to work in either direction.    The Baldwin Locomotive Works built a demonstrator tender type engine which was 

displayed at the Columbian Exposition of 1893.    This led to the type's name: 'Columbian'.   This locomotive featured ambitious seven-foot-tall driving 

wheels, and was one of the first tender-equipped locomotives with a trailing truck.    This freed the firebox from having to sit narrowly between, or above, 

the drive wheels, and was a very influential design.

This inspired three major U.S. railroads namely Atlantic Coast Line, Burlington and Reading; to purchase a few of the type.   But the two-wheeled lead 

truck was never well-suited to high speed service on far-flung North American rails because of it's uneasy riding qualities.   Some were converted to 

4-4-2 Atlantic types and others were converted to 4-6-0 Ten Wheelers.    The display locomotive was donated to Columbia University in 1898 where it 

was placed on display in the vault between Havemeyer Hall and the Engineering building.    In one respect, however the Columbian was a success.    

A great many Atlantic types would follow, most based on that design.


A steam locomotive is a rail vehicle that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam. It is fueled by burning combustible material (usually coal, oil or – now rare – wood) to heat water in the locomotive's boiler to the point when it becomes gaseous and its volume increases 1700 times. Functionally, it is a steam engine on wheels.

A tender or coal-car is a special rail vehicle hauled by a steam locomotive containing its fuel and water. Steam locomotives consume large quantities of water compared to the quantity of fuel, so their tenders are necessary to keep them running over long distances. A locomotive that pulls a tender is called a tender locomotive. Locomotives that do not have tenders and carry all their fuel and water on board the locomotive itself are called tank locomotives. In the early days of railroading, tenders were rectangular boxes, with a bunker for coal or wood surrounded by a U-shaped water jacket. This form was retained up to the end of steam on many coal-burning engines. Oil-burning engines substituted a fuel tank for the bunker. Variations on this plan were made for operational reasons, in attempts to economize on structure.


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