OMG i wat'ched this as a kid! and when I was like 10 to 11 I went to cass railroad as a kid it was so much fun yea pretty cold but it was fun I"m almost 20 just a few months away
It was. That was the color of paint they had in the shop at the time. Undoubtedly the same paint they used on the mill buildings and other rolling stock. As everything was on a "run to failure" track by that time, they saw no need to buy more "engine black". They were just keeping things in good enough repair to stay operational.
