The generic "Box car red" is misleading.What we really need is more information on the colors (shades or hues ) used by the various railroads.Having that information,we can weather to our heart's

--- Mike Brock <brockm@...> wrote: I think the most fundamental difference in perceived color is light intensity. An average train room is lit about 7 or more F-stops less than the good

Andy Carlson writes: "Color does not have a scale. Colored light does come in differing intensity, etc. etc., but it does not scale." I believe the point is, while color might not change,

I believe that the geographic differences in milk rail transport probably was at least in part influenced the differing natures of the dairy industry in major parts of the country, i.e. milk

The BL ad in either a recent RMC or MR advertised the later scheme and I ordered one thru Central Hobby supply. I believe it was number 9009. I have not received it yet but my ordering is what

The underlying factor in the milk transport on railroads is clearly distance and quantity. In the New York City milk market there was a huge volume, much of it coming from upstate New York. This

The issue of whether any given color photograph may be an accurate mirror of color is a judgment that almost always has to be made contemporaneously. Even then, even though judged acceptable, truly

When I was on the UNPAC in Kansas in the early 50s Bauxite was shipped in Box cars from Arkansas to the west. Thank you Larry Jackman

the Tony, I think you are right about the alumina. I believe it was alumina, not bauxite, that was being shipped to Massena via the N&W during my time there. Jack Wyatt

I have been quiet about this latest thread about color "given different light, amount of weathering, time of day....". But the old myth of color having scale has been repeated so often it has been

Dick Murray asked: Dick, are you sure they were shipping bauxite to Massena? When I worked at Alcoa in Vernon in the 1950s, I understood it was alumina shipped to the reduction plants such as

Paul Catapano wrote: P2K is advertising the Mather Boxcar. I think someone on this list called this boxcar the Model "T" of boxcar's. I interpreted that comment to mean they were fairly common. I

I don't know about the fifties, but when I was at N&W in the seventies and eighties, it came into the port of Norfolk and was handled usually in unit trains, IIRC, of sixty covered hoppers from

Yes, color has scale!!! You can't use prototype paint, even if you operate outdoors under the same conditions as the prototype, because of the fact that your eyeballs will receive less light from the

I have a mid 20s photo of the depot at Moline KS with at least a dozen tall milk cans by the freight end. There was a dairy at Moline, so these could have been empties going

Does anybody know the service route for shipping bauxite to the ALCOA plant in Massena, NY on the St. Lawrence Div of the NYC during the late 1950's? I am assuming it was shipped in covered hoppers,

They must have been shipping milk into Omaha. I believe the CNW and maybe the IC went through Dunlap. Milk had different requirements than cream. we sold cream to the J H Neil creamery in Tama

P2K is advertising the Mather Boxcar. I think someone on this list called this boxcar the Model "T" of boxcar's. I interpreted that comment to mean they were fairly common. I model 1952 and am a

A curiousity question on the new HO release of an Lake Superior & Ispheming AAR boxcar from Red Caboose. I've not been able to locate a photo of this car in that scheme, does anyone know if these

it seems to me that you can paint a car with whatever matches a paint chip if you can get a hold of one, BUT. if you paint an o scale car and an ho scale car with the same paint, they will look