I'm building a Korber O gauge 7 stall roundhouse and would like to paint the interior similar to PRR practice. I've been in the old PRR Northumberland roundhouse but don't remember how the walls and posts were painted.
Ed Rappe
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Ed,
Perchance some variant on grime, grunge, grit, gook, gunk?
ChipR
Perhaps "soot". Here's the Benjamin Moore page on this color.
Believe it or not but this was the original official color name for the outfield walls when Citifield was first build. After a couple of years they finally repainted it to Mets blue (which is actually Dodger blue.)
Whitewash, an inexpensive solution of lime, whiting, size and water, which became grimed and soiled with time.
In the "Engineer Jim Skeevers" stories, which took place at the turn of the century, he talks about ordering barrels of lime periodically to whitewash the walls of the roundhouse.
Not sure about PRR, but in general anything railroad related that had an interior - buildings, passenger cars, cabooses, engine cabs, etc. - were painted a pale light green, sometimes called "industrial green". Tamiya has a light green paint called (I think) "JAL Cockpit green" that I've used for interiors.
Interior offices would likely be suede gray, as it would be around, but I'd suspect white wash for the round house proper...cheap and available!
Slightly OT, but the inside of the roundhouse at the B&O museum is suppose to be historically correct (this roundhouse was used to build and repair passenger cars). The walls are white down to about shoulder level and then black below. This is because this covered up the marks left by workers when they leaned up against the walls while on breaks or between jobs.
Bob
