My fathers waycar 14444 has a mustard color upper
surfaces and medium brown about midway down the walls.
We had the color match to com fo the original paint.
It did have a light green in it at one time. We
dicovered that below the mustard color.
Steve Karnes
--- zephyr9903 <zephyr9903@iowatelecom.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:08:51 -0700 (PDT), tim fleck
> wrote
> > Marshall,
> >
> > The mustard yellow is probably well aged tan or
> light
> > brown paint. Sounds reasonable to me. Tim
>
>
> Oooops! I shoulda thought of that! The
> wooden-waycar-era was when almost
> all railroaders were smokers. The tar from
> cigarette smoke in an enclosed
> space will yellow *any* color. I'm a smoker, and
> the American Flag sticker
> on my living room window wound up Orange, Yellow and
> Green <grin?
> >
> > yellow
> > > > ceilings. They were all the same light brown
> as
> > > the
> > > > walls, but then again, it has been over 30
> years.
> > > > John
> > >
> > >
> > > Once again, a memory excercise in lieu of my
> > > vanished reference files -
> > > however, I recall references to waycar interior
> > > walls, bulkheads and ceilings
> > > variously described as "tan", "light brown" and
> (one
> > > reference only) "buff).
> > > Metal hardware (cupola grabs/ladder rungs,
> hinges,
> > > latches, etc.) was
> > > originally black, but may have been overpainted
> with
> > > the wall color in some
> > > instances - The floor was universally described
> as
> > > "maroon". Whether this
> > > was a brownish "maroon" like the Rock Island, or
> a
> > > purplish "maroon" as in
> > > GM&O, I haven't a clue!
> > >
> > > Marshall Thayer
> > > Mt. Pleasant, IA
> > >
> >
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