Re: GPEX Pfaudler Steel Milk Car: proper paint color?
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MDelvec952
To add to Dennis's answer, the lettering was imitation gold on the Pfaudler cars, a pretty common color for lettering in the steam era. In the 1980s I looked closely at (wiping clean) the three cars given to museums (IRM, St. Louis and Rio Vista Junction) and they are consistent in the "Dulux" gold color of the lettering.
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....Mike
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From: soolinehistory <destorzek@...> To: STMFC <STMFC@...> Sent: Sun, Jun 2, 2013 11:28 pm Subject: [STMFC] Re: GPEX Pfaudler Steel Milk Car: proper paint color? --- In STMFC@..., "cereshill" <cereshill@...> wrote: The one we have at IRM, GPEX 1021, is Pullman Green with yellow lettering. This link should take you to photos: http://www.irm.org/gallery/GPEX1021 Surprisingly, that's still the original paint. I remember the car when it arrived in 1974 or thereabouts, and the gloss was gone from the paint then. It was a rather light, yellowish version of Pullman Green. Dennis [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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