AntonioFP45,
I am not sure if my reply came through or not so again Thank ye!
A short time ago I did the interiors of my Bachmann N&W Heavyweights and they turned oot verra nice. Now I am going to do my other passenger cars.
But I need your help one more time. I opened the box from IHC and it has lavatory walls. Can ye tell me what colors they would be in the coach?
Sorry aboot htis. Guess I should have opened the box first.
Mac
Hello Mac!
Yes, I saw your reply - Thanks!
I know I make a lot of posts and replies on the forum, but most members don’t realize that I post in “spurts” (4 or 5 posts within a few minutes) which is why it seems like I’m on here 24/7 when, on average, I’m here for about 10 minutes early in the morning before I go to work, about 1/2 hour during my lunch break and then in the evenings about 4 times a week.
Re: The lavoratory walls - I’m “foggy” on that one. I’ve ridden on Penn Central, Amtrak, and various tourist trains. Often (but not always), the bathroom walls in the streamlined coaches were either:
- The same color as the walls in the coach (tan, light green, etc)
- The top half the color of the coach walls, the bottom half stainless steel.
- All stainless steel.
Sorry it if it’s not very helpful. But a suggestion… I can respect and understand your desire to be prototypically accurate, however, remember that even the “purists” have to make minor compromises. As stated on the “Easy Sharpening Up…” thread, you can only see so much of a passenger car’s interior from the outside. So “go with your gut feeling” if you can’t find the exact info.
If you don’t mind, please continue to post your results on that other thread. It’s my hope that it winds up becoming a good source of info for passenger car modelers. Not because I started it, but because of the wealth of good info that other members have generously contributed on there.
Peace and High Greens.
It has already become a GREAT source!!! Thanks for starting that thread.[:D]
To all!
I met a gentleman who is into PRR cars and he said that the time period I am trying to do the walls were often cream or buff colored. This gentleman’s name wast not gotten as he lives in Chicago. I think I am going to leave the walls as is. He also said that the floors were often tan rugs.
Thank ye again.
Mac
I can confirm the “tan wall” thing. I was in a PRR observation car in Altoona during the PCRRHS convention in 2004. The walls were a creamy yellowish color. The carpet in that particular car was a 1970s shade of orange. Not sure if that carpet was original, or just “temporary.” Not all PRR cars were like that though. The other car (a lounge) I was inside had a mural on the wall, and the colors were pretty dark.