Technicolor Corp. had a railroad car built in 1917 to process their then new two strip color film on location. Few color films were at the time filmed outside a studio. I would love to have one of these cars. They could run on any railroad. Don
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Cool...
You'd have thought they'd have a color photograph of the car (color film from the Lumiere brothers was marketed in 1907) or at least color tinted photo's.
Rusty
Wow...what an interesting bunch of...well...stuff in that car! A small gasoline(?) generator set, desks, lots of rotating things with belts...a Frankenstein switchboard with 100 pound rheostats, steam heating pipes, a 300 pound typewriter, a carbon-tet fire extinguisher...what's not to like?
You could make a close kit from LaBelle O scale kits. I would guess it's Pullman Green.Don
That's a neat car. I love looking at old gizmos and doodads as are in that car. I could look at that stuff all day. I think back to when that was state of the art and what the people using these things might have been doing. I also like thinking about the workers that built this stuff and what they went through. For me this applies to old buildings and the mechanical/electrical equipment they had too. Wouldn't it be neat to be able to travel back in time and see some of these things in their prime (hmm...where's my flux capacitor?). I had no idea they had RR cars like this. Fascinating stuff. Thanks for posting the pics.
I found a photo on another site about Technicolor history that clearly shows the lettering on the car's side below the windows -- Road Equipment.
B Smith, can you post the picture. The only one
I have seen is this one. I do know Pullman built it. Don
That would be a great car and conversation piece of history!
Here's the photo I found. I think it's the same photo as posted originally, but the lettering is a little bit easier to read. You can also make out TMPC No. 1 at each end). More searching may turn up something better.
And here's a link to the site on which it appears: http://www.widescreenmuseum.co...lor/technicolor1.htm
Well, this is exactly the same photo, but the image on the "widescreenmuseum" website can be enlarged without as big a loss in resolution. The original is in The Smithsonian History Museum, according to the photo credit.
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