Thanks very much for the info on the found paint, Hayden. I've shown your photos with several collectors/restorers of WW1 stuff and we're all baffled as to the use of that color. It doesn't match anything any of us have every seen for WW1 ordnance or vehicles.
That said, the colors might have changed around 1919, and this might be the colors found on the cylinders. This is a timeframe that isn't well documented that I'm aware of because simply put, military buffs are mostly interested in the timeframes of conflicts, not
between them (especially between WW1 and WW2, a long timeframe when a great deal changed for almost everything in the military).
I have very little info on factory specs for the Davenports and only have photos of them in use in the 30s and 40s (which by then, all of them had long ago been painted black on Army posts).
More than anything, I'm ecstatic that you didn't paint the thing is a fictional 1940s OD green that
no Army steam engine ever carried but many in model railroading think they did! I still hold out that someday the people at Ft Benning will repaint their Davenport to the black paint it carried there in the 30s and 40s...
-Lee
Flickr photo set of my On30 layout
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