The railroad world has an amazing number of variations of the color red, especially the reddish-brown pigment made from iron oxide. To keep track of the colors and help me select and match paints, I painted this gondola in shades of red.
From left: Wisconsin Central maroon, caboose red, Milwaukee Road maroon, roof red, tuscan, D&RGW freight car red, light freight car red, boxcar red, special oxide red, oxide red, mineral red, roof brown. All colors on this side are Polly Scale acrylics.
The other side has Floquil caboose red and boxcar red at one end, and three versions of UP Armour Yellow at the other.
As you can see, there is a very large variation in the Armour Yellow. The Badger is very yellow and saturated, the Polly S is kind of pale and washed out, and the Floquil seems to me to have the best balance - but those of you who are UP fans can weigh in with your opinion. Maybe the Badger is actually closer to what a car would look like fresh from the paint shop.
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