Color problem--Allegheny Railroad

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I have an undecorated GP-35 that I’m going to turn into this.

I’m good at matching colors, but the colors I see for the Allegheny RR in pictures go all the way from faded Levis to bluish-purple. Anyone have a color for the base color. Here’s another shot.

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Chip,Try this site…You will need to scroll down but,its there.

http://www.tfs.net/~jashaw/rrdata/floqu1.txt

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