Re: Color Quiz - another "E" for Effort . . .

Fritz Klinke Wrote:
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> . . .  I have been very suspect of the greens that
> the D&S comes up with as being off base, as in
> their Pullman green that to my eye is a "Hunter
> Green" . . .


Thanks for the additional info, Fritz -

You have confirmed my hunch that the "really old can of paint" wasn't from D&RGW days, but was left over from painting #493 using a color that came pretty close to what someone remembered seeing somewhere – maybe, like myself, in a color photo of a D&RGW standard-gauge freight loco as reproduced in a book.*  In all honesty, I don't think Jeff ever claimed that the ersatz "Moffat Green" applied to the passenger equipment roughtly ten years ago was anything close to Pullman Green – IIRC, he just wanted to paint the cars dark green as opposed to bright yellow, red, or maroon.  IMHO, they looked pretty good from a strictly "artistic" perspective, but were never intended to be "histöric", as SFAIK the D&RGW never applied 'boiler jacket enamel' to passenger equipment . . .    

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

*  OTOH, check out the patch of dark green applied to "Union Pacific #478" (D&RGW #473) for the filming of 'Butch & Sundance' in September, 1968:

Photo copyright © 1968, 2013 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.

Where did THAT paint come from??   IMHO, only The Shadow knows . . .



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/09/2018 10:06PM by Russo Loco.