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Re: Color Schemes of Passenger Trains
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lugnet.trains
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Tue, 21 Dec 1999 14:54:15 GMT
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lpieniazek@novera.^Spamcake^com
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John Warren wrote:
Does anyone know the history of color schemes for
> great northern that can answer my question? Anyone? Anyone? Larry? :^)
Not me, color schemes, especially prewar, are not my forte'. I DO think
that UP switched to the Armour Yellow and grey with red stripe very
early post war...
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| (...) My forte' is more along the lines of green engines :) Ones with Castle, Saint, Hall type names :) That or LMS stuff (Black 5's, Princesses and so on) I'd have to dig through what little I have left on US railways ( I gave away my MR collection (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Color Schemes of Passenger Trains
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| I think the standard UP colors debuted in the mid/late 30s. I have a brochure from (19)36 that shows those colors, although it doesn't actually have a picture of a train to verify that they were painting the trains those colors that early. -- Have (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Color Schemes of Passenger Trains
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| I have a few questions about some of the history of passenger train color schemes. I'm deciding which color I want to build a passenger train. The book I'm using for reference (if you want to follow along) is the Walters HO 1999 reference book. On (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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