Bill, It was my understanding that they/China use the RAL system, at least with the projects I have been involved in... Greg Martin

Ah yes.... the Purple Pullman. Actually, it was a bit more Plum and Fuscia, but certainly NOT any acceptable match for the PRR Loewy "Fleet of Modernism" scheme! The sample is still on my shelf and a

Mixing paint to match a paint chip, a paint sample, a photo, or memory is, for me, very difficult. One could obviously prepare 50/50 mixes of all possible combinations of one manufacturer's paint line

Tony, And I, for one at least, really do appreciate that extra step in your book. Awaiting the tank car book, Charlie

Rob Kirkham wrote: It should be noted that there are generous-size paint "chips" in the back of the PFE book. These were very carefully matched, ON PRESS, to PFE's own paint chips. They are a

In a message dated 5/14/2008 10:00:05 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jack@... writes: I can't argue that weight is the proper way to establish and document paint mixing although it

Having gone down this path myself using Pantone, Federal Standard and other systems, I found I was able to do more to discuss colour by going down to a paint shop, having them mix a batch of paint

Hi Guys, What color red was used on MILW rib side boxcars and what model paint matches it. BILL

No, here it is http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm Rod timboconnor@... wrote:

Marty Nope, no one has mentioned nazis yet. Oh, wait, i just did. So yes, this is the end.

Thinking the Pantone system would be a quick, efficient way of communicating the desire color to the factory in China I tried using it when I was at Intermountain. The results ranged from comical

You cannot do Enchantment Blue in a Panatone color. Al Kresse

Gordon Andrews (including the ENTIRE thread in his post) wrote: Give it a try, Gordon. You will quickly find that the Pantone system is not very good for this application. Practically any freight

Great idea Gordon... but.... So far I have been unable to find a Pantone chip that closely matches ANY of the six shades of "BCR" that I have chips for - from oxide through Mineral Brown. Ditto

Rather than beat the color red to death I have a suggestion. Why not set up a document or folder in the folder section where members can post the Pantone color number that "they" think most

ed_mines wrote: Ed, you may well be right about a true yellow on earlier SFRD cars, but I'd observe that PFE's orange paint faded and weathered to a quite distinct yellow. However, all you had to

Another color that varied was the "reefer yellow" used on SFRD reefers in the '40s.d Sometimes it looked as orange as PFE reefers. Sometimes it was completed devoid of any red. I saw a TV show with

My last employer used a variant of linseed oil for a protective coating. The stuff varied in color all over the map. Some batches were almost water white in the can. Some were very amber in a 2 mil

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Lindsay Smith wrote: Possibly you missed the tongue planted firmly in cheek, Lindsay. And I'm a retired professor (the very worst kind). Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press,