Reply To: New Member – PFM HO 2200 class models

[Charles Duckworth]

Mike
Joe Collias scratch built many beautiful HO MP steam locomotives in brass and never painted the roofs red and he photographed them up until their retirement. Mike Adams, MP Employee and historian, told me they were red but his scratch built HO 6434 and his O gauge Pacific did not have red roofs. He built the Pacific in the late 1940’s and used Mopac steam locomotive paint to finish the model he’d gotten from the shops. So you’d have to think he was following current Mopac paint standards. Mike also had a S scale brass Mopac 2-8-0 and it was painted with a red roof. The paint standards certainly could have been modified over the years and red roofs being used in the 1930’s and early 1940’s but with WW2 (when the 2200s were built) they could have easily done away with the red roof and gone to black as with the rest of the engine.

Like you’ve noted there’s few color shots of MP steam and most I’ve seen are taken at ground level but on page 14 of Joe Collias Mopac in Color is 1436 taken at Kirkwood I 1953 and you can clearly see the roof matches the rest of the locomotive- Black. If they were mine I’d paint the roofs black.[attachment=3:26yi89vy]2EFDE73B-6AD4-4DD9-9815-4DF67A890B2E.jpeg[/attachment:26yi89vy][attachment=2:26yi89vy]4664C451-C85C-4146-A034-46FB416267E9.jpeg[/attachment:26yi89vy][attachment=0:26yi89vy]20C5FD13-45B5-4FE3-B5AB-2D47FF4A2B5F.jpeg[/attachment:26yi89vy][attachment=1:26yi89vy]2374BAED-5D05-4A79-8122-5B65B07E99DE.jpeg[/attachment:26yi89vy]