The tank car doesn't have stub side sills, so it isn't AC&F or Union Tank. On top of the dome, the two safety valves are a ways apart, not next to each other, but also not dead opposite. I'm guessing

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 05:22 PM, Tony Thompson wrote: No one has mentioned the Robert Maxwell Colorado color from the 1940s, both standard and narrow gauge. Many of the images have beautiful

Jim Adding to your comments on color discussions some 8% of the male population is color blind and it gets worse as we all age. https://www.colourblindawareness.org/ Charlie D. (Who’s green/red

Don't know much about tank cars but it looks like the next car aft of the tanker is a USRA rebuild. The 3 bay offset side hopper could be an MDC but I'd opt for the old Stewart, Accurail or Bowser.

It's be nice to know the make up of this train (attached) running on the branch l model. It's obvious the first car is an X31. I've been told the second is a D&H Seley hopper. I have a Bowser X31 and

Guys, guys, guys, To paraphrase Jim Wells ... "Just trust your eyes". We are making way too much out of the concept of "the perfect color match" - and even applying it to the color of weathered

Thanks for all the responses on the common scales. All that’s remaining is the C&O, GN, Milwaukee, Seaboard Air Line and Southern. Just send these to omahaduck (at) gmail (dot) com I went though

Hi guys Living in the U.K. I do have a problem with certain boxcar colours as I cannot get paint from the States, can anyone recommend a Tamiya colour that would be suitable for PRR circa late

Fred, Though it doesn't really answer your question, the Western Pacific was heavily involved in auto parts traffic. The WP served a Ford assembly plant in Milpitas, California. They had a small fleet

Bingo! That describes what I am looking for. Rob

Bruce, I totally agree, and I have never claimed Delano's photos will provide anything near precise color matches of individual colors. And having spent part of my career analyzing human vision in

Thanks Bruce! I appreciate Brianna’s wisdom. And you show a lot of good techniques. Still like Greg Martin’s post-it note shading! I remember seeing that described in Mainline Modeler an age

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