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nedsn3 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 04, 2019 2:58 pm

Thanks Kelly! Love those N&W Mastadons. Too bad nobody has an SP 4-10-0 running.

Dave Lewandoski · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2004 5:58 pm **Posts:** 1076

Fabulous work as always!

Jennie K · **Joined:** Fri Feb 13, 2015 2:48 pm **Posts:** 192

Always enjoy your posts Kelly, much appreciated!

Richard Glueck · **Posted:** Thu Jul 04, 2019 4:27 pm

Kelly, just great to watch a competent locomotive shop do things requiring great precision, correctly, the first time. Please keep up the fantastic work and share it here with the rest of us. Thank you!

Frisco1522 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 04, 2019 6:58 pm

I thoroughly enjoy your updates. There's some damned good looking machine work and welding there.

John Risley · **Joined:** Tue Aug 24, 2004 10:34 pm **Posts:** 951

Yes thank you for taking the time to do these photo updates. Always interesting to see and read. Regards, John.

Kelly Anderson · **Joined:** Tue Sep 14, 2004 7:52 am **Posts:** 2477

jayrod · **Posted:** Fri Jul 05, 2019 8:37 am

Kelly,

Caboose color..... I haven't had a chance to chase this all the way down yet. We have two cars that will eventually need paint.

If the cabin cars were painted the same color as the freight cars, I have the Munsell numbers from the PRRHTS on my list under Freight and MOW (see the sticky above) for PRR "freight car red". 1930s thru 1960s. The coatings manufacturer's color lab should be able to use those.

If you remember to, please let me know what you come up with and I'll add it to the list.

jayrod · **Posted:** Fri Jul 05, 2019 8:46 am

Here's a some info on paint and lettering:
https://jbritton.pennsyrr.com/index.php/tpm/115-steel-cabin-car-painting-lettering

Kelly Anderson · **Joined:** Tue Sep 14, 2004 7:52 am **Posts:** 2477

jayrod · **Posted:** Fri Jul 05, 2019 8:58 am

One more thing.... The chrome yellow for safety appliances usually matches closely to National School Bus Yellow. There's a Fed Standard fo that. I have not yet verified that for PRR but it gives you a point of reference as to what approximate shade of yellow they should be.

jayrod · **Posted:** Fri Jul 05, 2019 9:06 am

Kelly Anderson wrote:

The story I was told was that PRR mixed their own paint, and of course had standard formulas for how much dry pigment to add to the base. In practice, the measured amounts were interpreted as however many handfuls of pigment per batch. If the painter had big hands the batch had more color or vise versa, i.e. there actually was no "standard". For what it's worth.

You are correct that PRR bought premixed pigment in bulk. Hence, batches could change slightly in color and sheen depending on who mixed the paint that day so in reality, there's no such thing as a perfect match. I have PRR mixing instructions that I copped online somewhere. Not useful today but interesting.

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6471

Kelly Anderson wrote:

nedsn3 wrote:

Thanks Kelly! Love those N&W Mastadons. Too bad nobody has an SP 4-10-0 running.

Well, actually acording to Whyte, 4-8-0's are "twelve wheelers". 4-10-0's are "Masadons", and about as rare as well. Never the less, I agree that the N&W 4-8-0's are eye candy for steam fans, even though #475 can be a back breaking bitch to run in hot weather.

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Great photo of an engineer in the cab of the N&W Twelve-Wheeler! Posed or not, it's a wonderful shot. Kudos to the photographer! Who's the engineer by the way?

Les

S. Weaver · **Posted:** Fri Jul 05, 2019 12:31 pm

Les Beckman wrote:

Great photo of an engineer in the cab of the N&W Twelve-Wheeler! Posed or not, it's a wonderful shot. Kudos to the photographer! Who's the engineer by the way?

Mr. Dave Lotfi

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