https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3A715.3114249.CP/from_search/-13 Thanks! Elden Gatwood

Thank you very much Dick. I have been trying to model the UP freight cars going back to the 1890s but google always fails me. Do you have and web sites that would help me? That would be

The road differences for mineral red aren't great for newly painted cars, but sun bleaching and paint oxidation lighten the paint so that it can take on an oxide shade. Then there's mineral brown used

We’ve beat this dead horse into the ground here, and many other places, countless times. “Mineral Red” pigment was from naturally occurring Iron Oxide deposits (rust). Iron oxide can range in

Maybe whoever did the N scale blade would scale it up. Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR

Nelson wrote: "To simplify my question, which roads painted trucks boxcar red? I’m modeling 1953, so that limits the range to wood DS and SS boxcars, 1932, 1937, and PS-1 boxcars, and misc.

Nelson, if I understand, no, Shapeways cannot / will not. All Shapeways is doing is providing the service of printing items designed by others, via a portal. Whoever made the blade CAD could scale

Then what I'm getting out of this is that, beyond color drift between batches, mineral red for one road is likely going to be different than mineral read for another, right? Thanks for the responses,

I forgot to post here that my file can be accessed via my Blog link below. Once there, scroll down several posts to locate. Cheers, Ted Ted Culotta Speedwitch Media P.O. Box 392, Guilford, CT

Charlie, if Shapeways has the N scale drawings, couldn’t they scale the blade for HO? Nelson Moyer

Yes, that’s exactly what I’m looking to model. Thanks for the photos. The flat car is either a FM-11 or FM-11A. The difference is that they were separate order numberx, so once they are renumbered

Stupid iPad!! Sent previous message and THEN the photos appeared! Thanks! Charlie Vlk

Tom-I have an N Scale Shapeways blade for the CB&Q car and would appreciate the photos as well!! Thanks, Charlie Vlk

I this what you're after, Nelson? It's not petite! It's at the Colorado RR Museum and I took a break from scanning photos this afternoon & went outside and took some photos. Interesting arrangement

ATSF and CB&Q are two roads that used the term 'mineral red'. It comes from the red iron oxide containing rock ground into powder and used as a red paint pigment. It was available and cheap, so that's

Bill Lugg writes: To my eyes Mineral Brown is closer to Boxcar Red than it is to Tuscan Red. Steve Shaffer Las Cruces, New Mexico USA

Great Northern Railway Newspaper Ad: Post-War Boxcar Shortage A link to an advertisement placed in the Minneapolis Moring Tribune, August 26,

I see a lot of folks tossing the words "mineral red" around on this list.  What color would that be in terms a modeler (like me) would understand? Thanks Bill Lugg

Yes, lots of variables, that’s why I narrowed the range somewhat from 1940s to 1953. Most of the cars I need truck color on are 1932 and 1937 boxcars. Nelson Moyer

Santa Fe did, even in the 1953 painting book issued by Santa Fe they were painted with 1 coat of mineral brown. Charlie Slater Sent from Outlook