Could not find a better forum to use, so hopefully this one is good.
I have two B&O Express Wagon Top boxcars that have a paint scheme no longer seen by my layout's era.
The B&O circle herald was removed off the express cars well before my layout's late 40s era. I would like to remove just that without repainting the whole car. You can barely feel the design when I run my finger across it, so it might be painted on.
Is this possible?
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A Paasche air eraser will let you remove the yellow without taking off the green underneath. The green will be more matte than the surrounding green paint, though.
That said, I'm surprised. At the beginning of the 1940s, there were only 25 cars in this class. Fifty were built in 1942, another 25 in 1943, and 25 in 1945. If they had heralds when built, most weren't old enough to be repainted without heralds in the 1940s. And 100 of the 125 were returned to freight service in 1948 after the ex-troop sleepers were acquired. Curious if you have photo evidence for no heralds?
And are you sure the no-herald photos are these green cars, and not the later blue scheme that some of these cars were repainted into?
Only two photos of a green C-16, and they are black and white with one not so sharp. From the surroundings in the photos, they could be the same car. And it/they could be either green or blue.
Your timing on when the cars were built makes the 1942 date I saw in an HO paint discussion suspect. One person asked when the herald was removed from the C-16s so he could put the correct scheme on his car, and another answered 1942. Other than that I have seen no other discussion on the herald, just the car color.
I guess with a lack of real evidence, I should not try to remove it.
I know exactly which cars were painted in the blue scheme in December, 1949, and which were green. What is the number of the car in your photo, and do you have a date for the photo?
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