Re: 4442-strange livery in 1971

[Allan Brown <ajbrown@easy.com.au>]

Barry Campbell wrote:
> 
>
>This brings back vague memories of seeing at least one non standard paint
> job at Chullora around that time. The reason being that as it eliminated the
> more complicated yellow striping and all the signal red striping it was
> cheaper. Unfortunately it looked rotten. Although the main colour was
> supposed to be tuscan red or indian red, it was most certainly brown on some
> locos.
> 
> Is my memory correct?
> 
> Barry Campbell

It is indeed correct. It was an experimental colour scheme of the late
60s - early 70s, and applied only to two 44 class locos. The other 44
was 4457, a picture of which appears on Page 25 of John Sargent's new
book "Rail Scene New South Wales - NSWGR Diesel Electrics "the Tuscan
Generation". Actually, it's quite attractive!

Allan Brown