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Were Southern Rwy. PS4 Steam Engines Ever Painted Black?

The first order of Ps-4s (1923) were delivered in black paint. The second (1926) and third (1928) orders were delivered in green paint. Beginning in 1926 other passenger power (from 4-4-0s to 4-8-2s) were also repainted green.

toward the end of steam

During the period the Ps-4s were being retired (1947-1949), both passenger and freight diesels were being delivered in green paint schemes. All the photos I've seen of the last years of the Ps-4s show them in the standard passenger scheme. I'll leave it to others to prove a negative, but the amount of evidence supporting the existence of black postwar Ps-4s is equivalent to the amount of evidence suggesting postwar solar powered, purple and orange Ps-4s - zero.

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