(erielack) Re: [Fwd: [AnthraciteRR] Re:DL&W milk cars]

[MDelvec952_@_aol.com]

In a message dated 5/12/01 9:18:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, dlr_@_csnet.net 
writes:

> > A recent posting asked for info on the wood DL&W milk cars.  There was an
>  > article on them in the July '91 Railroad Model Craftsman. Does anyone 
know
>  > what color they were painted? Bud Rindfleisch

Hi Bud,

The Lackawanna specs on these cars say that they were painted "Lackawanna 
coach green," the same color as the Boonton Line cars and m.u.s after the 
1940s.  Color photographs slides seem to confirm this.

Lackawanna's coach green  was an olive drab-like color, and the modeling 
color that's a dead ringer for it is Great Northern's Empire Builder green.  
Not GN's steam-era green, but the diesel-era Empire Builder green.  
Scalecoat's Empire Builder green is as perfect as it can get.  Tri-State's 
coach green color research while painting its Lackawanna baggage car in 1994 
also came to the same conclusion, as did Steamtown's.

Hope this helps                 ....Mike

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