Interesting discussion on old Kodak films. Unfortunately, no one had even dreamed of Photoshop back in 1978 (or the room sized computer you would have needed to run it back than) when I had

This is a problem that keeps on coming up. The funny thing about "correct" colors is most of the time the frame of reference by the vast majority of consumers is another company's model (correct or

Off of the top of my memory, CNW had Type 21 tanks for company service. The CNWHS has a good photo archive you could check for pictures, and I'm certain Northwestern Lines covered the topic a few

Ed, I think Tichy just moved to God's country to be away from all the fallout from freight cars. Chuck Hladik Rutland Railroad Virginia (also God's Country) Division **************Biggest

Jerry, Most certainly. As in fuels of several types, water, weed killer, waste oil, even ferryboat bilge water (the latter was on the WP, but it was a 10K AC&F Type 7). If you have a specific road in

Dave Nelson wrote: Dave, I'm not aware of a Type 26 (could be my ignorance), but there was a Type 27. Did you hit the wrong key? Spen Kellogg

Does anyone know if the Type 21 or Type 27 tanks cars, such as InterMountain's or P2k's were used by certain railroads for company service cars? Photos? Thanks, Jerry

Aley, Jeff A wrote: Yes, quite true, and I think anyone who fiddles with various color corrections finds this out pretty quickly. The non-artist's first instinct in this area is often

Before the spectrograph, it was difficult to measure colors. Texure and lighting futher caused differrences. When I was a painter's laborer in Berkeley CA, it was common for the painter to mix

Mike and Tony, For hints on correcting those magenta slides, see http://www.scantips.com/color.html . Basically, his point is not that the slide is too red; it's that there's too

Mike Del Vecchio wrote: Thanks for the good discussion, Mike. Just wanted to comment on this part. I obtained copy slides from the DeGolyer of some of Steinheimer's color from the 1950s, all

In addition to all the other fun involved our models, colors have a size as well! Just ask anyone who's bought paints from paint chips and then painted walls with it. Damn, too dark... is the usual

I agree with Tony but some of these guys writing on this subject were wanting EXACT colors and those were the ones I were directing my remarks to. Close but not exact. Thank you Larry

Tony Thompson writes: "We do want to be in the right ballpark, and often the prototype paint chip does give a starting point." I'll not argue against that. I mean...one has to start somewhere, of

A friend of mine, a well-known rail author, has been for years working with old slides and converting them to tiff images. Ektachromes do the blue shift thing, but he has more-or-less figured out a

John King wrote: John, it's well known by archivists that Ektachrome and Kodachrome survive equivalently IF and ONLY IF they have equivalent storage, meaning a cool, dark place. Ektachrome does

About 30 years ago, the late Leonard Rice allowed me to borrow and copy many of his color slides. The dates on these ranged from 1939 to the 1950's. As expected, the Ecktachromes were extremely

Greg Somewhere I read the great irony that Kodak greatly simplified and cost-reduced developing Kodachrome film in the 80's or 90's right at the start of the digital revolution... It sounds like the

back not EXACT the discussed colors, of vendors, and We should also point out that successive batches of "model" paint are not always identical and therefore, using the same formula for a specific