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Wrong Color Paint?...Sez who?

dkdkrddkdkrdOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

While privately communicating with another Forum member, searching for Santa Fe caboose historical information, I stumbled across this website.  If ever there was a photographic case to be made when arguing over the "correct" color of a model, the old adage "A picture is worth a thousand words!" is spot-on for shortening the argument when viewing pages 43-47!...

Correct Color?

Too bad more historical records don't have similar line-ups for other equipment, other railroads, eh what?  You know, lines of diesel types, passenger car types, freight car types, etc., etc..

Add to that the 'Cataract Color Change Factor' among our aging optics, and, well...

Even the color quality of 1955 films can't be claimed as absolute.  But the relative variations are readily apparent.

Just thought it was an interesting perspective to share...FWIW.  (Not intended to be a fresh grenade on the topic, folks!)

KD

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modeltrainspartsmodeltrainspartsOGR Forum Member

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.

HW Hot WaterOGR Forum Member
@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.

Number 90Number 90OGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

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.

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