Many cars serving the auto industry were in pool service. Are there listings or other information on what lines to and from where, when? Fred Swanson

Rob, Folks, The handout from my clinic was already in the FILES section. I have created a folder entitled "Weathering techniques" that includes both the presentation (featuring Brianna, age 5 at the

Dave, Folks, Lots of people have chimed in, but now, as the son of one the three most senior research scientists at Eastman Kodak, who spent 90% of his career working on film dyes, let me address this

Elden sez: "Kodachrome…..they are the only slides I took that looked like the real thing." Actually, Elden, they are the only slides that look like your MEMORY of the real thing 😉. Memory is a

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”