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Re: (erielack) Structure Color Scheme

Thanks for the response. I personnaly have always had a place in my heart 
for the old faded green and red. The fading didn't effect the red so much, 
but it made the green into a blue. Quite memorable.

Bill
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>From: Dave Rutan <rutan3_@_nac.net>
>Reply-To: Dave Rutan <rutan3_@_nac.net>
>To: EL List <erielack_@_lists.elhts.org>, WlClvrh2@aol.com
>Subject: Re: (erielack) Structure Color Scheme
>Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:18:33 -0500
>
>Bill,
>
>I only research the Sussex Branch, but the rest of the DL&W sometimes leaks 
>in around the edges.  Barn red is what I would use without an actual sample 
>of the color.  I modeled a Branchville station kit which I placed at 1910 
>and used red oxide for the color.
>
>From my doings of the stations on the Sussex Branch, I've determined enough 
>to convince me that about the time of WWI (1915 for Newton) the DL&W 
>painted their stations a light gray with green trim. The hue is up for 
>grabs, but I'm guessing a neutral gray as it was described as 'drab' and 
>also as possible matching the concrete of the newly paved lower Spring 
>Street in Newton.  Colorized postcards, while not 100% reliable for hue (or 
>even color sometimes) do correlate what I've found as mentions in the 
>newspapers of the time.
>
>Around WWII (definitely by 1947 in Newton by a color photo) the DL&W was 
>painting stations (maybe not all) in the familiar dark green and red trim.  
>Again, I speak from my Sussex Branch obsession, but I think it reflects the 
>railroad generally.
>
>Dave
>
>>  >From Archives_@_Railfan.net
>>Message-ID: <cd1.8d881dc.32f817c2_@_aol.com>
>>Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 00:16:50 EST
>>From: WlClvrh2_@_aol.com
>>Subject: (erielack) Structure Color Scheme
>>
>>The color scheme on DL&W wooden structures during my 'railfan career'  has
>>been a nicely faded Forest Green with Chinese Red trim. I understand that  
>>prior
>>to 1910 century, the color scheme was a barn red.
>>
>>Is this correct? Were there any earlier schemes, or branch  variations?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Bill Culverhouse
>
>--
>Modeling the D.L.& W. Sussex Branch
>If it weren't fun, I wouldn't do it.
>http://dlw-sussexbranch.com/modeling_index.html
>
>
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