Wrong Color Paint?...Sez who?

True. Even PRR fans can't agree on whether "Brunswick Green" or "Dark Green Locomotive Enamel" was black, dark green, green with a little black in it, or something else. Memories fade... photo film fades, and the sun fades...

Great article!  I just saved it to my office computer with the intent of getting it on my home computer this evening. 

I guess Mineral Brown depended on what mineral ended up in the paint that day?

THANK YOU!! - Hopefully your post will help eliminate some of the frequent complaints that appear here on this forum about "the color is wrong", "the shade of that color is wrong", and on and on. If the complainers would think first before complaining: color variations both in real life and on our toys are subject to: brand of paint used, amount of thinner in the paint being applied, humidity, ambient lighting, color rendition of old photos, color rendition on different computer screens (if used), was the PMS used, and multiple other variables. Color complainers, you know who you are, please stop trying to pick the fly s..t out of the pepper, and enjoy your trains.

I always thought Dark Green Locomotive Enamel (PRR Brunswick Green) was black with enough green thrown in to change the shade slightly?  Plus, I've had my cataracts "fixed," and all colors look vibrant again.

Chuck

@PRR1950 posted:

I always thought Dark Green Locomotive Enamel (PRR Brunswick Green) was black with enough green thrown in to change the shade slightly?  Plus, I've had my cataracts "fixed," and all colors look vibrant again.

Chuck

You might want to do some research on just exactly what & how PRR "DGLE" was formulated. I'm sure the PRR Historical & Technical Society would have such information.

In the line of Santa Fe waycars, the darker mineral brown car has been recently painted.  All of the waycars have actually been painted with the same mineral brown paint.  However, the others have been fading in the sun, as well as picking up dust and brake shoe smoke raised by the trains they have been following, on the Los Angeles Division, between San Bernardino and Barstow, Los Angeles, or San Diego.  Given a year or so, the darker one will look just like the others.  But, for a while, it will look different.

The cars were sitting in the A Yard at San Bernardino, my Home Terminal when I was a Locomotive Engineer.