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

[NW Modeling List]

Lee

Just to explain, the names of the counties and colleges were all sleeping cars, some of those readily appeared in the Pocahontas in the early 1950s. The Pocahontas train name decal did not appear on car sides until the Pocahontas was improved in 1969 and most of the cars repainted in the blue scheme. In the N&W real world of the 1950s, only the Powhatan Arrow train name appeared on car sides in the tuscan red era. The Pocahontas was strictly the Pevler blue era. Now that being said, you might see a Pocahontas logo on a red car in the excursion era of the 1980s-1994.

Ken Miller

On Jul 8, 2014, at 8:59 AM, NW Modeling List wrote:

> 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? 
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> Thank you,         Lee Burns   
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> From:        NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> 
> To:        NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>, 
> 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. 
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> Second, I feel for Lee who with good intentions opened up this can of worms again. 
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> Third, we got some good usable "this is how I do it" answers that people can try. 
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> 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. 
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> 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.  
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> 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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