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color MDT reefers in the '40s
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ed_mines
Ted's new reefer book says - "Like many other cars illustrated herein, it was painted with orange sides, the MDT- standard for cars painted in the 1930s and through the 1950s.........." (page 49). I recall Roger Hinman said the same thing in his book (currently in my storage locker). Aren't there several Jack Delano color photos taken in Chicago during WWII that show several lemon yellow sided, wooden MDT reefers? Has Roger passed? Were there any 1940s era 40ft ice reefers with school bus yellow (mostly yellow with a little orange)? Ed Mines
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Benjamin Hom
Ed Mines asked: "Ted's new reefer book says - "Like many other cars illustrated herein, it was painted with orange sides, the MDT- standard for cars painted in the 1930s and through the 1950s.........." (page 49). I recall Roger Hinman said the same thing in his book (currently in my storage locker). Aren't there several Jack Delano color photos taken in Chicago during WWII that show several lemon yellow sided, wooden MDT reefers?" It would help immensely if you could reference the photos in question. The entire collection is available online. "Has Roger passed?" Roger is not dead - he's a member of this list. Ben Hom
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Tony Thompson
ed mines wrote:
Orange did fade toward yellow. A photo of an orange car in service for some time cannot be definitive on this color. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; e-mail, tony@... Publishers of books on railroad history
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Don Burn
MDT reefers are shown in https://www.loc.gov/resource/fsac.1a34776/ and https://www.loc.gov/resource/fsac.1a34780/
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Don Burn
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From: STMFC@yahoogroups.com [mailto:STMFC@yahoogroups.com] Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2017 3:48 PM To: STMFC@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [STMFC] color MDT reefers in the '40s Ed Mines asked: "Ted's new reefer book says - "Like many other cars illustrated herein, it was painted with orange sides, the MDT- standard for cars painted in the 1930s and through the 1950s.........." (page 49). I recall Roger Hinman said the same thing in his book (currently in my storage locker). Aren't there several Jack Delano color photos taken in Chicago during WWII that show several lemon yellow sided, wooden MDT reefers?" It would help immensely if you could reference the photos in question. The entire collection is available online. https://www.loc.gov/collections/fsa-owi-color-photographs/about-this-collection/ "Has Roger passed?" Roger is not dead - he's a member of this list. Ben Hom
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ed_mines
Thanks Don. So some of you think the sides of the reefers in those photos have faded from orange to yellow? Ed Mines
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Of course - "our companies" - FGE, etc...
Regards, Bruce Smith Auburn, AL Ed Mines askes:
Were there any 1940s era 40ft ice reefers with school bus yellow (mostly
yellow with a little orange)?
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Speaking of MDT reefers, were the MLKX reefers with double sheathed
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sides, steel dreadnaught ends and steel roofs clones of the MDT reefers or were they second hand, or what? Thanks! Tim O'Connor
MDT reefers are shown in https://www.loc.gov/resource/fsac.1a34776/ and https://www.loc.gov/resource/fsac.1a34780/
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The Delano photos and another photo I grabbed from Ebay (with good color rendering) show yellowish cars but it could be fading. All later photos (1950s+) are definitely a mild orange, slightly darker than NP reefers for example but more subdued than PFE. Tim O'
Aren't there several Jack Delano color photos taken in Chicago during WWII that show several lemon yellow sided, wooden MDT reefers?
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ROGER HINMAN
Yes, I'm still alive If you go to the LOC collection and do a search on "South Water Street Chicago", and look at the fifth photo down titled " General view of part of the South Water Street Illinois Central Railroad freight terminal, Chicago, Ill.you will see a striking example of a freshly painted MDT car next to a few that have weathered, a portion of this picture was in my book on pg 142
Roger Hinman
-----Original Message----- From: 'Don Burn' burn@... [STMFC] To: STMFC Sent: Sat, Apr 15, 2017 4:31 pm Subject: RE: [STMFC] color MDT reefers in the '40s MDT reefers are shown in https://www.loc.gov/resource/fsac.1a34776/ and https://www.loc.gov/resource/fsac.1a34780/
Don Burn -----Original Message----- From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2017 3:48 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: Re: [STMFC] color MDT reefers in the '40s Ed Mines asked: "Ted's new reefer book says - "Like many other cars illustrated herein, it was painted with orange sides, the MDT- standard for cars painted in the 1930s and through the 1950s.........." (page 49). I recall Roger Hinman said the same thing in his book (currently in my storage locker). Aren't there several Jack Delano color photos taken in Chicago during WWII that show several lemon yellow sided, wooden MDT reefers?" It would help immensely if you could reference the photos in question. The entire collection is available online. https://www.loc.gov/collections/fsa-owi-color-photographs/about-this-collection/ "Has Roger passed?" Roger is not dead - he's a member of this list. Ben Hom
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D. Scott Chatfield
While you might call it a slightly orangish yellow as opposed to lemon yellow, those cars are definitely not orange. Scott Chatfield
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ed_mines
indeed! Roger, glad you're still with us. you're referring to the second photo Don Burns references, right? Which car is freshly painted? This batch of color photos retains red color - check out the border of the clock in the photo with the ends of 5 box cars. Ed Mines
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ROGER HINMAN
The photo I'm referring to is LC-USW36-603 taken by Delano in Apr 43; there are four met cars side by side:
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ERDX 9149, MDT 6382, MDT 17424, MDT 5242; MDT 6382 is the car that is freshly painted. The car was just over six years old at this time but had been released in late 1936 in the "white" scheme.
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From: ed_mines@... [STMFC] To: STMFC Sent: Sun, Apr 16, 2017 2:57 pm Subject: Re: [STMFC] color MDT reefers in the '40s indeed!
Roger, glad you're still with us.
you're referring to the second photo Don Burns references, right? Which car is freshly painted?
This batch of color photos retains red color - check out the border of the clock in the photo with the ends of 5 box cars.
Ed Mines
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D. Scott Chatfield
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsac.1a34780/ Pretty clear the color was yellow then. While dirty, the overall carbody color matches the fresh paint patches. Scott Chatfield
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Here is a link to the photo I think that Roger is describing.
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsac.1a34785/
The new car is clearly orange, although slightly more towards the yellow than the daylight orange of PFE.
Bruce Smith Auburn, Al
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Pretty clear the color was yellow then. While dirty, the overall carbody color matches the fresh paint patches.
Scott Chatfield
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The last one, MDT 5242 - is 5721. Also let's all try to remember this is a SCANNED image from FILM. So the apparent "color" isn't gospel. The photos overall have a kind of "washed out" look to them, so I'm not sure that all spectra were treated equally. Tim O'Connor
Roger Hinman wrote :
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Fred Jansz
And the scanned gov image is from a COPY of the original as you can see in the gov description. So there might be two color shifts; one of the film used to copy the original, one of the scanners profile. But I guess they know what they're doing, this is not an amateurs work.
I've ran all MDT color shots through Photoshop to get a kind of 'even' color while maintaining the 'perception' of a real life view (regarding sky an materials like stone, track, etc) and IMHO it's not the ususal PFE or Daylight orange. It resembles it but has a tad more yellow in it. Fred Jansz
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Bill Welch
Too bad there is not an accurate model of MDT's most numerous wood-sheathed reefer.
Bill Welch
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or the later DESPATCH steel reefers :-(
Too bad there is not an accurate model of MDT's most numerous wood-sheathed reefer.
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