I have got three green hoppers from Garvey (Evans 4780 Covered Hopper). They are great models but I do not like the extreme intense green paint. I would like to tone them down, weather them. My problem is that I can not find any photos of prototypes of that Garvey intense green hoppers. Did they bleach out, did they get dirty, did they have lots of rust? I do not know and don not want to ruin the models.
Any pointers to prototype photos would be great.
This is a patch job on an old GGIX Covered Hopper, but the result is what you are looking for.
http://forum.atlasrr.com/discussion/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=67756
Rick J[2c]
Rick, thanks for the photo. I did find that one but I did not understand if it is a weathered green GGIX car with some patches and new lettering or “another” green car.
The patch lines up perfectly with the Garvey Lettering. It’s pretty clearly a former GGIX car. Here’s a few more; on the first one you can actually sort of see “GARV” under the paint:
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=dme24127&o=dme
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=hs23205&o=hs
Garvey also had some cars in red:
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=hs23141_2&o=hs
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=itlx24034&o=ge_railcar
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=sirx475073&o=sirx