Re: SEC 'F' class question

[krel4203@netconnect.com.au (Krel )]

Does anyone know, for sure, what livery SEC4 first ran in??

>I researched this for my article '40 years of F-class locos' (Oct.91 RNV,
>still available for $4.50 to box 146 Surrey Hills).
>The locos were delivered from UK in undercoat grey.
>SEC ordered six locos: three for Newport (to be painted green), three for
>Yallourn (to be painted aluminium).  There is no evidence of the locos ever
>going to Yallourn, or being painted in the intended livery: they were
>leased to VR.  The green livery is remembered, and ARHS attempted to
>recreate it on the one in George Brown Park BUT there is no firm evidence
>of the shade or of the trim detail.
>Not all VR ones were black; there was a scarlet one for passenger shunting
>at Spencer St.
>
>-- 
>Regards
>Roderick Smith
>Rail News Victoria Editor
>
>Krel  <krel4203@netconnect.com.au> wrote in article 
>> What was the paint scheme on the SEC F-class locos when delivered?
>> AIUI VRs ten were painted Black with red buffer beams (nine locos and
>> red with a yellow stripe (one loco). The black locos were all
>> repainted red with yellow stripe. Later they werepainted Blue and
>> gold.
>> SEC locos MAY have been larch green. Later they (it?) were/was blue
>> with yellow stripe (slightly different to VR's).
>> I am particularly interested in the early history of SEC 4 which
>> became F212.
>

Cheers

Krel

Just another eccentric crank.