Dave Nelson wrote: The Accuflex "GN Green" (paint #16-65) was an excellent match to the SP "Dark Olive" paint chip. Polly S "Olive Drab," #500850 or FS 33070, was also quite close. Scalecoat's

I don't have any paperwork from the WM but I do have Bill Price slides, B&W photos and videos of WM freight trains in the vicinity of Cumberland MD, circa 1951-1954. WM was primarily a bridge

I believe Tony refers to Scalecoat GN Green, which is much darker than SC GN Empire Builder Green. I find the SC EB Green to be a good match for -faded- GN EB Green (which I have seen personally) but

I just finished scratch building "board by board" a double-board roof using the latest version of Northwest Shortline's "Chopper" and it is so much better than the original. The new version has an

Am currious: which one? Dave Nelson

The car appears to be a 50' 16 panel 8' Single door boxcar. I am having problems viewing the end photo. The door is bizzare, for a 4/6/6 improved Youngstown door would typically come on a 10-0 IH

Bill Welch please contact me off group? Thanks. Mike Brock

For the Empire Builder and locomotives, the "Pullman green" had a decided brown hue to it. The plywood sided boxcars were painted before the Empire Builder arrived and with only the diesel FTs in

i posted photos in files section, gonna guess no help out there... Bob Anson %~)

________________________________ The debate about color among GN modelers and historians comes as no surprise. I suspect that it the same for many of the railroad special interest groups. It

Tony, If you ask 10 GN modelers what is the "true" color of GN Green (or Empire Builder Green ... or Pullman Green) you will get 15 different answers ... it's a never ending discussion on GNGoat.

Larry I haven't found any ORER's showing the additional height of the altered CB&Q cars. Perhaps, as they were in that specific service and would not otherwise be available, there was no point to

Yeah, I strip the & character from all marks as it doesn't behave very well in querries to my database. Dave Nelson

(Extreme) (17'1") (17'1") (17'1") (17'1") (17'1") (17'1") (17'1") (17'0") (17'0") (17'0") (17'0") (17'0") (17'0") (17'0") (17'0") (17'0") 12'4. Thanks to all who responded to my question about the

box Chian representing Cheyenne is a good guess, and there is no station that starts "Chi" in UP's list. However, that same conductor (Harrison) spelled out Cheyenne 4 other times for cars in the

Does CO = C&O? I have few C&O FC pix fron North Carolina. Al Kresse

Tom, I don't believe that anyone in this thread ever said that they had green ends and roof. The painting instructions in the Sunshine kit, as well as the GN instructions clearly specify black ends,

Posted w/o intending to start another distribution discussion. I came across a spreadsheet in my files comparing data from the US roster of boxcars to a sighting sample. I recognized it was from the

This is an interesting thread: Somewhere I came across a discussion about this matter. The authorities on the subject stated that the original paint on the plywood boxcars was of course Omaha orange

Tony, According to GN Ry. stencil diagram #33257 dated 8/3/41 for NW-3 locomotives, reprinted in by GNRHS in Reference Sheet #21, the green is clearly labeled "Pullman Green" with Duco color