Black, green...does it matter? A better effort would be to find about fifteen heavyweights to hang onto her tender knuckle.....

It promotes interest and lively discussion. Sort of like a zoo having a naming contest for a new arrival.

Steve

You might be on to something. Maybe a set W. Graham Claytor Jr. nameplates to go on the smokebox sides, in LNER fashion. Brass raised lettering with a black background would do...
Now, should I take cover or hope my thick skull can protect me from the flak?

Since we're in the historically accurate mode,

Coke should only be served from a cold 6oz glass bottle into the appropriate curved coke glass filled with crushed ice!

AND, the Coke made should be from cane sugar (alas only available year-round in Mexico or around Passover (yellow cap) in the USofA.

Well I say lets scrap the black, scrap the green, and go with something totally different. Lets stream line 4501 and then go green?

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Sorry I just had to throw that out there.

Does it really matter if it is green or black? I mean we are getting a completely rebuilt 2-8-2 that help create the Southern/Norfolk Southern Steam program.

That's the point I was trying to make.

Andy Pullen