[CBQ] Re: N scale Intermountain F3 Grayback color

["j_bonkowski" <jbonkowski@psemi.com>]

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@...> wrote:
>
> Oh boy!!! Now Jim went and did it!!!!
> The color of CB&Q freight F Units is the Third Rail of CB&Q
Railfanning....

I'm afraid to ask...

> The FTs IMHO represent the darker of the two shades of Imitation
Aluminum 
> that the CB&Q used and, while I prefer the
> almost pure wide end of the spectrum, it is within the acceptable
range for 
> N Scale models.  (at least it isn't the Cadet Grey
> that Hallmark painted their brass FTs!!!).
> Charlie Vlk
>

They don't look like they do in the website picture (I know getting
the color right in digital photography is a crap shoot).  They look a
lot more yellow than that.  They really don't look like the photos in
my "Burlington Route Color Pictorial Vol. 1".  

It looks like to me that they botched it, but I am trying to reserve
judgement until I learn more.

jim





 
Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CBQ/

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    CBQ-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/