Red, Blue, and the Final Answer/and a shameless plug

Tue Jul 8 13:11:50 EDT 2014

Lee;

The Wuss & Looser (I'm married to one, and am from the Institute (VMI), so I can get away with it, or the Mental Institute as she calls it) is a County Series Car. They carried the school names and county names and were Budd & PS built 6-10 Sleepers. Some of the PM Sleepers & P3 Coaches carried the specific train names, like the Pocahontas & Powhatan Arrow. If you dig into the archives website you can find info on nearly every passenger car for N&W. See the following link:

http://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/rollingstock.php?RRSelect=N%26W+Rwy&CatSelect=Passenger&Directions=True

>From Richard Shell's ShellScale website regarding the decals and names:

"This set is for Norfolk and Western's fleet                   of streamlined passenger cars and sleepers. Printed in Dulux                   Gold it includes heralds for both the Powhatan Arrow and the                   Pocahontas. This set can be used for either Tuscan Red or                   Peveler Blue schemes.                    
Car names included are:  
Sleeping Cars Class S1, Augusta County, Campbell County,                   Duke University, Emory and Henry College, Franklin County,                   Hampden-Sydney College, Hollins College, Mercer County, Mingo                   County, Ohio State University, Pike County, Pulaski County,                   Randolf-Macon College, Roanoke College, Scioto County,                   University of Cincinnati, Virginia Military Institute,                   Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Washington and Lee University,                   Wythe County.  
Sleeping Cars Class S2: Buchanan County, McDowell County,                   Sussex County  
Additional Cars: Appomatox, Buchanan, Chilhowie, Claytor                   Lake, Cuttyhunk, Galax, Island Regal, Island Rose, Lowry,                   Pocohantas, Roanoke, Shenandoah, Sunstar Rose and Vulcan.                    
Diners: Frederick J Kimball, General William Mahone."

Another website that might help is George Ellwood's Fallen Flags site, which is temporarily down and should be back up very soon.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Russ Goodwin
Buford, GA
To: nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org
Subject: Re: Red, Blue, and the Final Answer/and a shameless plug
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 08:59:21 -0400
From: nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org

I am sorry for inadvertently opening a
huge can of worms but I appreciate the insight I received .  I am
trying to model the Pocahontas in N scale around the early 50's.  I
haven't found much reference material. I have the Shell decals I purchased
from the Society.  Would it be more common to find passenger cars
with names ("Washington and Lee", etc) or "The Pocahontas"
on their sides? 

Thank you,        
Lee Burns  

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To:      
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Date:      
 07/07/2014 04:04 PM

Subject:    
   Red, Blue, and
the Final Answer/and a shameless plug

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First, yes, the Modeling Committee is asking the archives
if we have any chips to forward to a paint manufacturer.

Second, I feel for Lee who with good intentions opened
up this can of worms again.

Third, we got some good usable "this is how I do
it" answers that people can try.

Fourth, we got an admission from many experienced people
that your lighting is a major factor; other factors include the date of
the picture you're using, the film, the time lapse between the time the
item was painted and the time the picture was taken, and scale.  And
your own color perception.  I really enjoyed the unsigned post that
mentioned some of these factors in an observation of multiple prototype
cabs.

And lest we think that this problem is limited to "ancient"
times, I recall seeing a few years ago a number of the Solid
Gold boxcars that did not match.  

If anyone on this list is at the NMRA National in Cleveland
next week, please feel free to drop by my clinic on Pochahontas Motive
Power, or my Scratchbuilding '98 (for people who aren't ready for Scratchbuilding
101)and say hello.  If time permits, Scratchbuilding '98 includes
a brief rif on color, painting, perception.

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