That’s a pretty smart test for slides. I like it. Rob

No one has mentioned the Robert Maxwell Colorado color from the 1940s, both standard and narrow gauge. Many of the images have beautiful color. Tony Thompson tony@... I saw those mentioned in

Since my becoming a RR slide collector I have a rule of thumb as a critic of color images. I imagine that what view I am looking at is from the view looking outside from the inside of an open window.

I should have added an observation about this movie footage. If you look at the shiny surface in the new Southern autobox paint, you can see the blue sky reflected. While that is less obvious in

Garth Groff wrote: Excellent point. The pinks and violet shades in some Delano images seem more likely to result from slide deterioration than from actual paint fading. In book publishing, I

The 2500 SK-Ks were built with Caswell drop bottoms. Beginning in 1935 and continuing to 1940, 1065 of the SK-Ks were rebuilt and renumbered into the 54300-54499 series. This rebuilding removed the

Another part of the same train showing one car - a Southern auto-boxcar - in new paint. The contrast with the other cars in the train is revealing. Not sure if the car is new, or just repainted -

Regarding 1940s and 50s grunge: I want to strongly agree with Dave Evans. To put it another way: We have no better reference of color in the 1940s than Delano and never will. Moreover those

Another image from Periscope. Such an interesting train! Picking one car and one paint job at random, I find it interesting to compare with the (excellent) Truecolor Wabash paint 191.

Sorry - hit send in error. More below. Rob On Nov 13, 2020, at 12:55 PM, Robert Kirkham <rdkirkham@...> wrote: In addition to Delano, there are other sources for WWII (or close) colour info on

In addition to Delano, there are other sources for WWII (or close) colour info on railway equipment. Folks have posted video links here over the years. Sometimes it is not 100% clear what vintage

Rob, A shift toward pink suggests that the negatives might be deteriorating. Although I've heard the Kodachrome was supposedly more stable than the later Ektrchrome (and far better than Agfachrome,

Thanks for this Bill. The big blue sky thought - as well as your other observations - make good sense to me. I had not considered Delano’s possible use of a filter. It isn’t something I am

Notes from Larry Occhiello's Santa Fe book, Listing Of Freight Cars By Class & Car Number 1906-1991, indicate one of the three series of Sk-K livestock cars (54300-54499) had sold bottoms. Bob

Hi Garth - this is the second time the red shift in Kodak film has been mentioned in the various threads of last week or so. I’m thinking when I look at the Delano images that the red is the

I have similar concerns. I’ve pulled a fair number of Delano’s photos into a top end photo editor and “adjusted” them. They look better. But what I wonder is this: Is today’s “better”

Friends, FWIIW, Jack Delano probably used Kodachrome Professional sheet film with an ASA of 8 or 10. Such slow films were all that was available until the 1950s. When I was a military photographer in

Dunno why some people focus on the flying gondola; Mather made his first fortune (which paid for the freight cars) with a patented glove clasp that's still in use today. You'd think that his 1905

Rob, A couple of points and then I'll be quiet. The Delano boxcar snip looked to have a color cast. I took it into Lightroom and as small as the PNG is, it still revealed a blue cast over the entire

Photo: NYC&HR Gondola 81888 A photo from the National Archives of Canada: https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=3277265 This photo can be enlarged