E8A Citation 2016 - August 1965 - Memphis, Tennessee (Golden Spike Productions)

Ok, what's going on? On the previous picture of 2013 and this one of 2016, the unit has a mixture of gold with no white outline and yellow FRISCO while the trailing unit clearly is seen in the later yellow scheme. Someone knowledgeable of the different paint schemes needs to chime in here to clarify what is going on. Terry

See page 72 in Frisco Diesel Power by Louis A. Marre et al.
Deliveries of E-8 units proceeded from #2007-#2015 before a revised painting diagram was drawn, listing names of famous race horses to be applied to #2016 upwards at La Grange and retroactively to units already delivered by Springfield Shop. A white separation line between gold striping or lettering and the red base color was also added, because of the insufficient contrast between gold and red areas.
Some E-8 units never received the white separation line.

If 2016 was the first one to receive the white stripes per your reference, then my question still stands: what is going on here, because there is no white stripe and it has the yellow FRISCO on the side instead of the original gold. Also, if this unit did not receive the white stripe (which I find difficult to believe as it was the first one to be painted with the revised scheme), then the P2K E8 model of Citation is incorrect, which I also don't believe is correct. Terry

Well, I have finally learned what the answer is to my own question. In the book cited, "Frisco Diesel Power" by Marre on pg. 72 under the top picture it says, "In the interim between full gold stripes with white separation finelining, and the dreadful 'dipped red and a daub of yellow' that was the 1964 austerity paint scheme, there was a modified 'Full Meteor' scheme not unjustifiably termed the 'Meteorite' by some". Winchester # 2005 pictured is an example of this "Meteorite" scheme. There appear to be several pictures of units in this "Meteorite" scheme in this section on the E units. Anyway, that answers my question as to why Citation # 2016 in this picture looks like it does. Terry

Thanks, Chris, I have seen that information, but I couldn't remember where. I will look for it again.
Terry