Re: [CBQ] KATY

["Bob Webber via groups.io" <cz17=comcast.net@groups.io>]

Rupert, IRM shadowlined am interurban in 1:1 scale.  After which, I asked about 
doing it too our BA-19 #993.   That is another subject.   

Santa Fe had cars shadowlined (notably the VALLEY cars).  As did the SAL, 
StL-SF, the NC&StL and M-K-T (and Q).  Pullman cars were given this scheme for 
use on the C&S, FtW&D, CRI&P and others.  

Dubin's Pullman Paint and Lettering Notebook has a page on it with a photo & it 
has a "paint chip" which shows the graduation of lines that produced the 
effect.  

If you look at the Newberry Library's Pullman collection they out to have the 
paint & lettering diagram for cars assigned to railroads that used the scheme.  
I believe at least some of the cars were painted in Richmond, CA. (the AT&SF 
rotated their cars (through shoppings) faster than most, and Richmond (Pullman 
Co. shop) did a lot of the work on the Pullmans assigned to AT&SF.   

The Shadowlined was simplified on a lot of roads such that, ultimately, 
Simulated Stainless Steel (SSS) became the end result (which is what we put on 
the 993) - the same roads above, plus SP, became a sizable group.   One of the 
larger issues was that brushes in the car washers tended to ruin the effect.  
And once shadowlining gets grungy and/or worn, it can look rather tatty.

I am not sure I indexed my images to indicate it (paint), I'll check.  



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