Does anyone know what the body color on the N&W Bicentennial piggyback trailer was? I was only able to find a black and white image of it. I am thinking it is red with blue lettering.
Thanks, Dan
Anybody???
I think it had a red/white/blue paint job similar to N&W’s SD45 1776.
That was my first thought too but, the engine had red and blue body color with the white stripe and gold lettering. This black & white picture does not realy show two different shades on the body. http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/nw/nwz1776ags.jpg I am still thinking red body but, I would have thought something would have been blue as well.
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Awesome, thank you very much. I looked for days and never came across that one. funny how the shading on the black & white picture did not show the color differential. This is great, now I can add this one to my collection when I get it painted.
Dan
An awfully lot of this “color differential” you mention is going to be determined by the type B&W film used and whether the photographer did or did not use filters. There is a code for remembering the colors of the spectrum but I can’t remember it off of the top of my head right now but I believe that red and blue are pretty close to each other - if not directly adjacent - in the white-lght spectrum and, therefore, certain types(?) of B&W film may not give very much differentiation between the two without the use of some kind of filter. I’ve shot, perhaps, a couple of hundred rolls of B&W in my life and I have encountered this problem quite frequently.