D500 posted:Mixed Freight posted:Tuscan red is a lot like box car red is a lot like primer red is a lot like barn yard red - the exact colors are more of a suggestion than a mandate.
Actually, RR colors are mixed to specific standards, and are part of a railroad's standard practices, and do not vary much at all. There are people paid to be in charge of this; it's not a hobby. There is a Right and a Wrong PRR Tuscan red. ("Color creep" through time is not unknown, of course; paint technology changes; samples fade - and certainly shades are even consciously changed sometimes.)
The above does not always apply to short lines and even smaller Class 1's.
So all in all D500, what you're really trying to say is.............................
Pretty much what I said to start with? 
