Re: Early Freight Car Docoration
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Cyril Durrenberger
Paul,
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I suggest you join the Earlyrail group. In the past there has been extensive discussion on the early "line" cars including blue line cars. Also there is much information on early freight cars and where to locate information. As a starter you need to look at www.greatdecals.com. There are two of us who sell decals for early era freight cars listed under Austin Modeling Associates and Art Griffin, who has an extensive line of decals and photos for sale. Also look at Clover House for a nice line of dry transfers for early cars. A number of really accurate, finely detailed resin kits are being developed and a number are ready for sale at this time. Write me off list if you wish. Cyril Durrenberger
--- On Tue, 2/17/09, wr3200 <paul_rocheleau@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: wr3200 <paul_rocheleau@hotmail.com> Subject: [STMFC] Early Freight Car Docoration To: STMFC@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 7:29 AM Hi, Let me preface my first posting to this forum by stating the obvious - I'm fairly new to model trains and even newer to prototype modeling. I'm interested in scratch building turn of the century freight cars (1910 or earlier). I'd like advice on where I could find prototype information on the graphics. Most pictures I've scrounged up on the web are blurry distant images at best, and of course black and white. I'm particularly interested in the more obscure New England railroads. Where should I look to determine true color schemes. I realize a historical society may be my best bet, but where would this type of information be recorded? Did railroads typically keep records of freight paint schemes? Did the rail car manufacturers? I came across a picture of a B&A Blue Line box car I would love to model. I suspect the text is Blue and the body a white or cream color, but I'd like confirmation. Any and all advice would be appreciated. Thanks, Paul Rocheleau [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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