610 was tarted up with a script logo reading WILL ROGERS and it was placed on display at the east side of the Will Rogers Colosseum in Fort Worth in the 1950's. As a boy, I visited the engine many times. It had the boiler and cylinder jackets painted a light gray like navy haze gray. It deteriorated a great deal with the cab suffering the attention of gauge smashers and other vandalism, with dangling boiler jacket and lagging hanging out. When it was restored to running condition in 1975-76 it was quite a surprise to me. Who painted it that color TP or the City, I have no idea... But it does imply that someone tried to ape a lighter pre existing color on the engine when it was painted as it was put on display.
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