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Hard to believe this is still floating around!  The 1401 as delivered and initially displayed in the Smithsonian did not have the white stripe (see photo). That was added sometime later by the museum. The Southern gave the engine a full external restoration, including painting (without the stripe), in Oct.-Nov. 1961 before it left for the Smithsonian. It was moved to the museum in late Nov. 1961 into a yet uncompleted addition, and the building was completed around the engine. This new part of the museum was opened to the public in 1964. The stripe was added at an unknown time subsequent to that.

 

In any case, it can probably be said that whether it's there, and when it got there, makes little difference to the world.  

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