UP Freight Car Red
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Arved,Ask Mike Brock. Armand
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arved_grass
Sorry if this has been asked in the past, but it's an old issue that's been bothering me. Star Brands paint lists their STR-30 paint as S.P./U.P. freight car red. I've never considered the U.P. and S.P. colors the same:
UP 126281: http://lariverrailroads.com/freight_car/up126281.jpg SP 210931: http://lariverrailroads.com/freight_car/sp210931.jpg Assuming I'm right (boy, is that a big assumption!), what's the scoop? Is there a better match for UP freight car red in the Star Brand/Tru-Color paint lineup? Arved Grass Arved_Grass@... or Arved@... Fleming Island, Florida |
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Tony Thompson
Arved Grass wrote:
Depends on era, Arved. They were certainly the same in the Harriman era, and appear to have remained the same through the 1930s, until UP adopted a much redder, even orange-tinged, color. After that, no, they were certainly not the same. As a passing comment, I can tell you from personal examination of SP color drift panels, that the "mineral" color did not change significantly from 1920 to 1960, and even the 1994 panel I have is only very slightly different. Some have claimed that after World War II, SP went to a richer, deeper color, but the drift panels I have seen do not bear that out. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, tony@... Publishers of books on railroad history |
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