Can Anyone Help Me Please?
I Live In The UK And I Am Building A Small Switching Layout Based On The PRR In The Early To Mid 60s.
Were The Color Of The Yard Switchers Green Or Black.
Pennsy engines were “generally” what’s called DGLE (Dark Green Locomotive Enamel). I think the formula for it was one pint of forest green per 30 gallons of black (or something similar). When new and viewed under good sunlight, you could definitely tell that it wasn’t plain old black. Unfortunately, the Pennsy rarely repainted their engines or kept them clean, and the color soon looked like a faded, dusty, gritty slate.
Many paint manufacturers make the correct paint color for Pennsy green. None of them call it DGLE, though, which is what the PRR called it!
Hello Dave,
Go to www.railpictures.net
Quite a number of Pennsy locomotive photos. If you can’t find a specific locomotive from the locomotive category box, go to the blank “Key Word” box and type in Pennsylvania Railroad.
Hope this helps!
And in case you’re still wondering, paint labled as “Brunswick” green is generally what modelers use to match DGLE.
Another formula I’ve heard is 10 parts black to 1 part green.
If you just wanted to paint it black and weather it, you’d probably be close enough that no one would know.
(You could always just say, don’t you see the slight green tint? I do [:D]
eric
Grimy black with 1 part Brunswick green will also work…The PRR freight units was well known to be faded and grimy…I worked on the PRR before PC…[:D]