Subject:
|
Re: Color Schemes of Passenger Trains
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.trains
|
Date:
|
Tue, 21 Dec 1999 15:31:18 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1214 times
|
| |
|
|
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 fun!
John
The Legos you've been dreaming of...
http://www114.pair.com/ig88/lego
my weird Lego site:
http://www114.pair.com/ig88/
Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <385F9497.B037A5F@voyager.net>...
> 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...
>
> --
> Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com http://my.voyager.net/lar
> - - - Web Application Integration! http://www.novera.com
> fund Lugnet(tm): http://www.ebates.com/ ref: lar, 1/2 $$ to lugnet.
>
> NOTE: Soon to be lpieniazek@tsisoft.com :-)
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: Color Schemes of Passenger Trains
|
| John Warren wrote: Does anyone know the history of color schemes for (...) 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... (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
|
4 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
