New Omaha and New Capitol circa 1950 as indicated in the original post.
Nelson
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From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bob
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 7:16 PM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Pullman 14 Section Interior Colors
Which car? Which year? Cars were modified over
their lives, and even cars in the same Lot had
different interior schemes. How exact do you
want to get it? If you wanted as built, the
Pullman Library has the specifications. But that
really wouldn't help after 1946.
A car circa 1920 had painted (faux) wood, not
wood panels. Same with frames. From a period
shortly after 1910 or so until the mid 20s the
concept was to paint aspects of cars that had
previously been wood (and were now steel) in a
faux paint in order to allow people to believe
that they were still wood (there was a backlash
against steel in that decade due to inordinate
fear of new things - a common enough theme).
The cars would have been renewed in the early
1930s, late 1930s, after WWII, after 1952/54,
etc. Interiors changed in context with (or
slightly behind) their times Heavy traffic
loads of the war years also educed change. Fashions changed.
1950 is a somewhat more difficult year than some
- right between the end of the war and the
breakup of Pullman, the new ownership changes and
the continued traffic patterns engendered by the
Korean War (esp. for 12-1, 13 & 14 section cars)
and the change wrought by the new Pullman and
ownership by railroads. The change in fashions in
this period mean wholesale changes in upholstery
and carpets. The direction was toward lighter
colors on the walls and less expensive fabric for
the seats & carpeting. [By the 1960s the cars
were allowed to fade and you wouldn't get a real good concept anyway).
Bottom line is a common scheme would be leaf
brown and beige walls & roof, green carpeting
with multiple tones, and dark brown, red, blue or
green seats. Take a look at color schemes in a
new LW car of the era and the HW cars attempted
to emulate the concepts (though not the exact schemes).
At 04:17 PM 11/14/2010, you wrote:
>
>
>I have the Branchline kits for New Omaha and New Capitol, and I'd like to
>detail the interiors, but I don't know the carpet, seat fabric, wall,
>ceiling and partition colors. The only colorized photograph I've found is
>circa 1920 showing a Pullman sleeper with wood paneled walls, wood seat
>frames, tan upholstery, and forest green carpet. The wood is stained in a
>medium dark maple. The black and white photos of New Farnum taken in the
>1930s published in Bill Glick's Passenger car book show painted upper
>berths, walls and partitions. The seat upholstery carpet are patterned, the
>carpet several shades darker than the seats.
>
>These cars were still around in the early 1960s, so there must be some
color
>photos somewhere. I'd like to model them circa 1950.
>
>Nelson
>
>
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