Okay, decals on the way in for a Northern Pacific WV caboose. Looking at color internet pics, it is difficult to be sure what the red color was. Did it start out as a red, dark red or cranberry color and then fade to oxide red or did it start out as oxide and then fade to brown? Never saw a prototype one myself,so I am asking you guys.
Yup, saw that one. I've already got the WV, like this. The color is what I am trying to get right as this print shows the identical caboose in dark red, oxide or brown! https://live.staticflickr.com/3100/3112005532_0170c94652_b.jpg
Having grown up between the NP and GN during the last years of steam and trying to geese back 60-70 plus years I do not remember ever seeing that bright of a red on the cabooses. More like an oxide red or reddish brown.
Here's a pic that appears to have been shot with a polarized filter, so the red may be a bit darker than in reality. https://www.railpictures.net/photo/777278/ These weren't so freshly painted. https://www.railpictures.net/photo/255121/ Not all the caboose pics are so tagged, but browsing is fun. https://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?offset=0&where=||Northern+Pacific+Railway||||||1|0||||||||||Northern+Pacific+Railway|||||||||||||||||||||
Did the NP Wide Visions ever wear the brown scheme? Weren't they delivered in this green and yellow scheme? http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/np/np10036abp.jpg
Thank you! https://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?offset=0&where=||Northern+Pacific+Railway||||||1|0||||||||||Northern+Pacific+Railway|||||||||||||||||||||[/QUOTE] That first pic is perfect! You can see the difference in the red of the Monon and the body of the caboose. Thank you!
I agree, John. I too saw the last of NP's active revenue steam, and on to the (ugh) "merger". There was no reddish hue that I can recall.
Well, ratz! No fair bringing facts into this! I guess RS1s would still have been running then, or else I need to repaint another caboose!
The NP wood cabeese were painted a red color that faded to the oxide brownish/red very quickly. It was the cheapest 'red' available, naturally!
I painted my NP 24' wood cabeese in Floquil Mineral, Tuscan, and Oxide Red to represent the various states of freshly painted to faded and weathered, as that's what I seen when looking at photos. I painted my Extended Vision cabeese in the BN Green with yellow like the photo above.
Okay, youse dirty fur-bearing, flea-bitten varmints have me all messed up now. I can either paint the WV caboose in the brown scheme [and yup there is a prototype picture] or do it in the BN merger green/yellow scheme! It's going behind a RS1, so what's your opinions? {And yes, I do know what that can let myself in for!] Because that Green Yellow scheme is gorgeous.
I would do the green and yellow scheme. The brown one is boring, and don't really look like an NP caboose.
