NdeM 3036

bobyar2001 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:20 pm

Rare circa-1954 photo, before enthusiasts traveled down regularly to see the last of steam:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 33&nseq=48

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6468

Bob -

It almosts looks as if the 3036 has a color band running down her tender under the NdeM initials. Don't think I have ever seen this before. Can anyone confirm and if true, advise what color it was? Must have been the same as on the passenger cars.

Les

QJdriver · **Posted:** Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:33 am

Sure thing, Les ---At the time this photo was taken, the Niagaras had dark green cylinder and boiler jacketing, cabs, and tender wrappers, as well as gold lettering and orange stripes to match the passenger trains of the time. Mucho Bueno Sabor.

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6468

QJdriver wrote:

Sure thing, Les ---At the time this photo was taken, the Niagaras had dark green cylinder and boiler jacketing, cabs, and tender wrappers, as well as gold lettering and orange stripes to match the passenger trains of the time. Mucho Bueno Sabor.

Sammy -

Wow! That must have been something to see! Are there any existing COLOR photos of them in this garb? Are any of the ones on display so decorated? And finally, is number 3036 still with us?

Thanks for the information Sammy.

Les

QJdriver · **Posted:** Sat Oct 06, 2007 1:42 am

I've never seen a color picture of a Niagara with the orange stripe, but there must be one somewhere. I've seen color slides of a simplified version of this paint scheme with green jacketing, but with freight style lettering, and no stripe. The centerspread of Harold Edmundson's Mainline Mexico book is a B&W time exposure of two Niagaras painted like that, sizzling away side by side on the departure tracks at Valle de Mexico. None of the surviving Niagaras are painted in this scheme, either, but that's a Hell of an idea.

When I saw 3036 in November 1966, she was in the black and silver freight scheme, but carried a custom made shield shaped number plate rather then the original rectangle. Today she's displayed at Leon, Guanajuato with an NdeM caboose and a narrow gauge ten wheeler from the San Rafael & Atlixco. Mucho Bueno Sabor.

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6468

Sammy -

Thanks for the info. Extremely informative, as usual. Don't know if we can get one of the surviving Niagra's in Mexico painted and lettered in this scheme, but perhaps the 3028, IF it ever gets restored, could be done up that way.

Les

rock island lines · **Joined:** Mon Feb 17, 2014 4:20 pm **Posts:** 487

"NdeM niagara 3036 coming off turntable at Vallee de Mexico 25 Dec 1960"

http://www.rwrightrr.com/photos/pbr.asp?road=NDEM
Ron Wright photo:

dinwitty · **Joined:** Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:18 pm **Posts:** 2226

didnt NdeM get some NKP mikados?

John T · **Joined:** Sun Sep 14, 2014 5:05 pm **Posts:** 1265

Does anyone have an NdeM work equipment book? I have been trying to track down there cranes.

Trainkid456 · **Joined:** Thu May 05, 2016 6:30 pm **Posts:** 238

dinwitty wrote:

didnt NdeM get some NKP mikados?

Yes they did. I think most, if not all of them, were the ex-Lake Erie and Western mikes that the NKP inherited when they took over the LE&W in 1922.

Thomas

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