STATION COLORS

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Jim is correct.

I don't have a date for a change over to the green and white, but I felt like it was late 1950s or early 1960s.

I believe the earliest scheme was a gray and dark red or black, then went to the dark red and cream, then in October 1947 was changed to the cream and brown, at least as an experiment with about 6-8 stations as I recall. There was also a version done at least to one station in June 1948 that appeared to be all white or cream.

There was still a later scheme, adopted just before NS of gray with black trim, and it was done on quite a few, ironically, not long before a number were torn down.

Ken Miller

On Aug 22, 2014, at 12:04 PM, NW Modeling List wrote:

> McClure's statement is wrong, and I have told him so.   Jim Nichols
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> On Friday, August 22, 2014 8:07 AM, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Jim. In the McClure book he says that "the station wears the last scheme of light cream with brown trim". (1950s). This seems to indicate that white/green was earlier. Ed.
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> -------- Original message --------
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> Date:22/08/2014 07:04 (GMT-05:00)
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> Subject: Re: STATION COLORS
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> For 1940-48 use buff and brown or cream and brown. Do not use Green and white. They are much later.
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> Jim Nichols
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> On Thursday, August 21, 2014 6:29 AM, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> This may be a newbie type of question, but what era are these colors 
> correct for?  I'm interested in about 1940-1948, and at least one 
> station I know of on my short line (the Danville & Western) was jointly 
> owned by the D&W and the N&W.  It would be nice to know what color to 
> paint the depot.
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> Ken Rickman
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