This sounds like the ongoing argument about DT&I orange. A modeler should simply aim for the target as his integrity dictates. If he's able to model a given car as he determines it looked on the

Guys - Risking incarceration here! It sounds like you may be describing one of the stock car series originally constructed for the LH&StL in the late '20's that quickly beacme L&N cars when that

Tony-- Yes, the cars would have been originally painted with identical spec paint (likely matched from wet paint samples as CN did?). After all, the P-Company WAS "The Standard Railroad of the

service. Hauling steel coil from Geneva, Utah to California. Dave Nelson

Greetings group, I have a couple of WP Proto 53' gonds in NEW 6-49 factory paint job. They have a orange triangle on the upper left corner of the side. I assume that this was to denote some

Does anyone know the company which made the "Perfection" lever hand brake (early part of the 20th century). I can't find it in any Cycs available to me. TIA. Tony Thompson Editor,

Bruce Smith wrote: I don't think it was just "too much weathering," Bruce, but also their tendency to model everything, structures, locomotives and cars, as though it was in a state likely to

Now I see where I mislead myself. It's those two buildings and the railing on the bridge. That railing looks the same as the one on the bridge next to the CNJ terminal. But I should have noticed

A good example here: http://www.shorpy.com/node/3350 from a Delano photo in Chicago, 1943. V isible in the so called "original" size. Dave Nelson

And Tony replied: I agree! The PRR was fairly fastidious about paint color consistency, as were most roads. Those cars were all painted with regulation FCC, and all looked pretty much the same

Ed Mines writes: "Exactly right Bill and John LaRue also identified him off line. Ameling requisitioned about a dozen steam era stock car negatives from me. My recollection is that one of the L&N

Coal Cars book.... it doesn't give a number range for the 38000 series Wabash cars and they went into the 3XXXXX series by adding 300000 to the Wabash numbers. accounts for the 359 cars. I know that

This sounds like Howard Ameling. He is retired and living in Florida. I will see if I can find his address. I know he has given his negative collection to the NKP Society Archive housed at Cleveland

Steve Lucas wrote: Steve, I don't think your conclusion is logical. Nothing I can see in the image contradicts the idea that every car was ORIGINALLY painted the identical color, but at different

Schuyler Larrabee wrote: But, but, Schuyler, all those modelers whose layouts are covered in cars with "brand new" paint can't be wrong, can they? <g> Tony Thompson Editor,

Malcolm Laughlin wrote: Probably still is. <g> Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510)

Discussions about BEDT, unless referring to frt cars there, is out of scope and, therefore, the thread is terminated. Mike Brock STMFC Owner

Further to your point, Steve, layouts which have all the cars painted the "right color" are basically not credible, and lack of weathering, even for "new this year" cars isn't realistic. A few years

Good point, Dennis. The BEDT was an exception to many rules, including some work rules. Even though it moved railcars, BEDT was not a formal railroad but a terminal. It got away with running steam

The Chrysler Building at 42nd Street is on Lexington Ave., the street that the camera is looking straight down. The Empire State Building at 34th St. is on 5th Ave to the west, visible near the