Russo Loco Wrote (in reference to the last photo on [ngdiscussion.net]):
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> . . .  Note the rectangle of dark olive green on the
> tender of "#478", most likely some gen-u-ine D&R-
> GW "Moffat Green" Boiler Jacket Enamel left over
> from the 1930's that was found in the paint shed in
> Durango a few weeks earlier when her Hollyweird
> make-up was being applied . . .    

jcpatten Wrote:
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> I'd be surprised at 30 year old paint being able to be
> applied to anything, instead of being a solid block.

GeorgeGaskill Wrote:
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> Linseed oil paint sets up when exposed to oxygen,
> so an unopened, undamaged can of paint, even if
> 30 years old, should still be useful.


Thanks, George -

I wonder if that was the same can, with its remaining contents long since dried out and hard, that Jeff Ellingson found nearly forty years later and had a sample from it analyzed spectrographically when he had the green urethane-type paint made up that he applied to the D&S passenger equipment and to C&TS #489 in 2010?

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender