Hi there
I’m modelling a fictious branch of the Adirondack Division of the NYC in the early 50’s.
I have read that depots were painted light grey with dark green trim.
Would any of you guys be able to suggest a Polyscale Grey that would closely resemble the light grey that the NYC painted their depots ??
Appreciate all your replies
Great question. I went through all my references and found nothing regarding what the “official” colors specifically were.
I eyeball it. Besides for every “standard” depot on the NYC or subsidiaries their was something not standard. Look at all the Richardsonian stone depots on the B&A. Same with the North Shore/ MC…
Hi
Thank you for your reply.
As I said, I had read somewhere what the NYC paint scheme was for their depots but can’t recall the source.
You are probably right. Even if light gray/dark green was the official paint scheme who’s to say that my fictious branch line didn’t have their own paint scheme.
I’ll follow your advice
cheers
Actually I thought the “standard” colors were light green and dark green, like this restored NYC Putnam depot:
Nice shot!
That looks like Yorkshire Heights Depot. Not the “standard” color scheme at all, but most definitely NYC…The various divisions had quite a bit of leeway in defining what standard is since they were all independent roads at one point or another abosrbed into the NYC system…Penn Yan has a beautiful depot in dark green with yellow trim…
I seem to recall seeing some similar paint jobs on NYC buildings in Kalmbach books - probably from Bill Darnaby’s “Maumee Route” layout, and others.
Course the NYC was a “System” made up of many railroads, could be one railroad in the NYC system used the green and green as their colors while others used gray and green??
p.s. sorry I forgot to mention that’s not my pic, here’s a link to the original webpage with it:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2369/2292038977_f2bf2467d6.jpg?v=1233022011