On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 10:53 PM, Andy Carlson wrote: To this day I am pleased with the mix, and it has solidified my belief that even large corporations may seek the economy and convenience of stock,

Tim I have a builder photo of No. 37000 dated June 1957 Don Ford Cameron MO On Wednesday, December 19, 2018, 10:39:40 PM CST, Tim O'Connor

I need help - I need a drawing of the National bottom door bracket and rollers as used on the USRA DS boxcars. I'm building this car in 1" scale and my primary reference is "Railway Prototype

The attached link give the mathemactical equasion for color matching. Modern commercial paint matches are concidered acceptable with a Delta E (dE) of +/- .5. This is a visual match, at arms lenth

Friends, Something nobody has mentioned is that in the early years of the 20th century, some railroads were still buying dry pigment (probably in barrels) and mixing their own

Hello- One thing to think of about colors is costs of custom blends. If a RR was to have a special color, getting timely restocks could be delayed, and the costs could be hard to justify to

When a shop had pride, and someone felt that it mattered (and with freight cars it normally didn't) they would often retain small odd lots of previous paint orders so they could have some chance of

A comment that really has little bearing on the matter at hand, but I absolutely love the black and yellow scheme. I understand the desire on the part of management to set the passenger units of on a

Don, I can shed some light on this question, MAYBE. When the ERIE’s PAs were delivered, they wore a black and yellow paint scheme, adapted from the freight locomotives. Later the ERIE bought

When were these built? Are they identical to the PFE R-40-27? https://www.ebay.com/itm/372534810668 Tim O' -- *Tim O'Connor* *Sterling, Massachusetts*

Another consideration concerning paint, color matching, and cost. Anyone who has purchased paint commercially, even model paint, knows that, unlike the paint department at the big box store,

This discussion brings to mind something I was told by Earl Hopkins, retired Chief Mechanical Officer of PFE, about paint color matching. He said that the PFE representative at the manufacturing plant

Railway Metal Products, Union Metal Products, and Standard Railway Equipment were all related companies by 1927, according to this Railway Age note: "The Standard Railway Equipment Company, the Union

The Delano picture brought to mind when I worked at the "Yellow Box". The yellow color of those Kodak film boxes was patented. We had to run to a standard... in and out color charts and use a

I suspect this research was more about things like durability and opacity than whether they met the exact color they wanted. Note the photo shows many samples of colors that are very similar. Also,

Curt Judging from the car's markings (no COTS panels) I'd say closer to 1970 than to 1980. There were still 2,178 of these cars in series 90500 to 90799, and 90800 to 92899 still in SLSF service in

I have another question with regard to paint suppliers on a road the length of the NP. Would the paint bought at a specific time be used by all shops on the railroad or did different shops use

I'll go you one better Mike. There is a fairly well known photo by Don Hills of Central Vermont #601 leaving White River Jct., VT on the northbound Ambassador with three B&M passenger cars each in a

In general, I agree with Jim's point. I think we obsess more about paint color than did most railroads back in the day. And quality control WRT paint color was probably a fair bit cruder than it is

If there are any letters or inter-company correspondence concerning paint matching or miss-matching, in decades of research, I have never seen them. For the numerous times I have diligently researched