Long Island Car 2972 Fresh out of the shop

summerj · **Joined:** Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:12 am **Posts:** 27

Here are some more photos of the first time 2972 came out of the shop this past weekend.

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6405

HOD Bill wrote:

Everyone should also know that the folks at Hoosier Valley were tremendously instrumental in helping HOD get the information regarding paint and lettering in order to do our car as well as they did theirs. They spent a lot of time collecting information and emailing and/or mailing it to us in order for us to be successful in our restoration. We owe them a big thank you for all of their efforts to help us.
This is a great example of 2 organizations cooperating to share info and make things happen.

From all of us at Heart of Dixie "THANK YOU!" Hoosier Valley!

Bill

Kind words Bill. Thank you very much.

Les

Railwayj · **Joined:** Tue Nov 05, 2013 7:14 pm **Posts:** 4

Our car at the Heart of Dixie is as close as we could possibly get to matching the Hoosier Valley Car. They provided their paint codes. Our painting contractor did not use the same brand of paint so we had to match color chips to pictures of their car on a computer monitor. If ours is a shade or two off, that would be the reason why. It still looks really nice in person. We strived to get it as historically correct as we possibly could and I believe we did a good job.

Howard P. · **Posted:** Fri Nov 08, 2013 3:58 pm

Railwayj wrote:

We strived to get it as historically correct as we possibly could and I believe we did a good job.

No. You did a great job!

Both those cars look wonderful-- right out of the Pullman builder's photos and the 1955 LIRR steam retirement trip pics.

Howard P.

midwest fred · **Joined:** Sat Jul 26, 2008 3:11 pm **Posts:** 54

For anyone wanting to do the same, all you need to do to match the colors I used painting the 2937 is to go to Sherwin Williams and ask them to look up "Island Dark Smoke" and Brunswick Green, under my account "Island Rail Preservation LLC." The underbody was a straight gloss black, the Brunswick Green roof I had them match from drift cards available from the PRR T&HS, and the Dark Smoke Gray I pieced together from multiple sources including some color chips I found on the car, as well as color photos from the day the first cars were delivered to the LIRR, made available to me by a member of the NRHS Sunrise Trail group. The painting specs are included in the construction specs which are available from the Pullman Library at IRM, however the lettering drawings are long gone, so I developed my lettering using commercial fonts and modified them for a very close match. I shot the 2937 in SWP High Solids Polyurethane.

Mike

JohnC · **Joined:** Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:20 pm **Posts:** 217

The Catskill Mt Railroad now owns a similar car which is being repaired and painted.

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6405

JohnC wrote:

The Catskill Mt Railroad now owns a similar car which is being repaired and painted.

John -

What's the number of your LIRR car?

Les

Long Island Car 2972 Fresh out of the shop

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