VIA Rail pantone color number

Contact Jason at Rapido trains. He is an expert at all things Via. JohnA

Step 1: Install Pantone Studio on your phone. This is a Free App.

Step 2: Picking the color orange off this D T & I locomotive.

Step 3: Take a photo of the color orange with the App.

Step 4: Fine tune the matching color.

Step 5: Check the final color.

Step 6: This is the formula for the final orange color. Save this information to the App. and take this information to your local paint center. Big box home center, hardware store or automotive paint center.

Hope this helps: Gary & hope see you out rail-fanning. 🚂

Gary!  I sure will!  Thanks so much!!!

Hi Scott. I believe the correct Pantone color is 316c.

Rob

Rob, that is the Blue/Green color.  Looking for the blue they are using now.  Appreciate the reply.

When I was riding VIA in May, this was how the P42s were painted when we arrived on the Montreal-Toronto corridor.  Do you have a photo you can share of the scheme you are looking for?  The little bit of blue on this locomotive appears to match the VIA blue that has been used for years, but I that is just an uneducated guess. 

Step 1: Install the free App, Color Snap your phone. This App can get paint samples off a photo.

Step 2: Open “Match a Photo” in the App.

Step 3: Place the VIA Rail Photo in the App.

Step 4: Pick the color from the photo.

Step 5: Final color, Glitzy Gold, SW 6691, Locator Number: 136-C6, R: 214, G: 160, B: 43, / LRV 39 - Take these number to a Sherwin & Williams Paint Store. They will mix this up to your liking & fine tune the color.

Gary: Hope to see you out Rail-fanning. 🚂

Jonathan, here is a link to the P42 in blue I am looking for the pantone color.

https://www.google.com/search?...imgrc=H8ByJ9HRxch4_M

Gary, I will try the color snap.  I did not have luck with the other pantone app.

And here is the green/blue which is pantone 316

https://www.google.com/imgres?...p;source=sh%2Fx%2Fim

Interesting.  I never realized that there were two colors on this scheme.  This is off the VIA Rail site and I at least found the info to be interesting.  Is this a new variation?  All the F40PHs I saw wore the green/blue color.

My understanding is that the P-42 locomotives were delivered from GE in the green/blue color.  The paint faded too quickly and VIA repainted many of them in blue.

Hi Vista Dome Scott: Why are you using The Pantone Color System to find a custom paint color?

Gary 🚂

Gary,  I will provide it to the custom painter who uses pantone.  Easier to have that number than guessing from various photographs in different lighting.  I am not convinced the blue is the same as VIA used on the blue fleet or the blue stripe on stainless steel cars.  Appears it cpuld be different.

Hi Vista Dome Scott:

What brand of paint is he using? Home Depot & Sherwin-Williams Paint Company do not use the Pantone System. They both have their own proprietary system.

Gary 🚂

Found this:

Tru-Color Paint 95 VIA RAIL BLUE or TCP-095

Dave

Dave, yes that one is the blue used on the blue fleet cars and striping on stainless steel cars.  In question is whether the P42 blue is the same or different.  It appears different in pics and videos.  Christine Braden used the trucolor VIA blue on my blue fleet custom paint project. (Example pictured below) I may go with it but not confirmed if the color they used again on P42 repaints.  To me the blue used now looks lighter or a different hue.

Gary, Christine mixes her own paints based on pantone color matches.   She is a professional artist and likely has other sources for her paint than home depot.

The Pantone Studio App. Is showing Dark Blue C, sRGB 0 36 156 • HEX 00249C. / This should be close.

Hope this helps: Gary & hope see you out rail-fanning. 🚂