While Dick has addressed the J&L color issue, there is some precedence in the prototype world for "one of a kind" mystery schemes. When researching the Milwaukee Road ribbed side box cars, I found a series of photos with paint and lettering schemes I had never seen. I followed up with "what the heck is this?"; questions to one of my key historical society contacts. Seems the railroad was testing options for new paint schemes. A single car was painted in one of the options, rolled out of the shop into the sunlight, photographed and rolled back in to be repainted in the next version. All the completed photos were sent to 'the brass' for the final decision.
My guess is many railroads did the same in the day when labor was cheap and "photo shop" meant bricks and mortar. Jim K. --- In [email protected], Richard Karnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rusty et al -- > > J&L had only five cars of the type imported by NWSL. All were silver (albeit dirty) with black lettering. See for example page 318 in the 1940 Car Builders Cyclopedia. J&L also had many more tank cars of a somewhat different style that were black with white lettering. <snip> ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
