The photo shows white footboard and Yellow cylinder cover? Color pictures of other NKP show a rustly yellow on the cylinder fronts. Was this for safety?
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I have never seen that before...and I'm an NKP fan. Do you know when that pix was taken?
The "yellow" cylinder covers are a result of poor color balance in that photo. The sun is reflecting off the cover and the color balance is too warm. Note that part of the footboards also has a yellow cast.
NKP never painted the cylinder covers anything but black.
Photo from PR Pictures Archives NKP 950 & 646 @ 79st Cleveland OH 7-11-55.
Originally Posted by OGR Webmaster:
The "yellow" cylinder covers are a result of poor color balance in that photo. The sun is reflecting off the cover and the color balance is too warm. Note that part of the footboards also has a yellow cast.
NKP never painted the cylinder covers anything but black.
On one hand, I do belong to the NKPHTS.
On the other hand, by no means do I claim to be an expert on all things NKP.
That said, I have NEVER seen the yellow paint in those areas before.
When Rich Melvin speaks about the NKP, assume it's gospel.
The only other possible/plausible explanation is that someone ran low on black paint one day and there was some excess yellow paint sitting around. However, I don't think there ever was an "official" paint color of yellow on the cylinders.
I would strongly suspect that Rich's answer is absolutely correct.
Upon closer review, Rich's answer HAS to be correct.
Take a close look at the shadows in the original picture. Think about where the sun had to be to cast those shadows.
What you are seeing is indeed glare off of the front of the cylinders.
Originally Posted by Soo Nut:
Rich
Here is a pix of H5 #521 with weathered white footboard and cylinderl covers a weathered orange-rust color, note the color is consistant around the cylinder More than one pix show this.
Regards
George
Now in those photos, that looks like rust and road/rail deposits from the lead truck wheels, which is then baked on, due to the extreme heat of the cylinder heads. I also do not see any "covers" on either the cylinder heads nor the valve heads.
I have a bunch of NKP footage from back in the day on DVD and they got dirty and rusty but were definetly not yellow. AS Rich said, they were painted black.
Chris
Valve gear painted white or yellow looking for stress cracks and these engines without cylinder cover just the value and head bolts exposed? Look at the first picture you can see the rail weatherning on the footboards and not on the cylimder heads.
Gearge AKA The Crabowski
If it's a poor color balance then why isn't the smokebox front yellow? Looks black to me.
Well I'm gonna stand corrected on the footboards....
These are definetly white.
As are these....
And these...not sure about those cylinder heads...
Chris
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