I have a 4 car set of the green-blue (or aqua) with silver roofs 3 x 3171 & 3172 like in the photo above. The bodies are the "exact" shade of green that my late Presidents Special car's bodies are. (Not the earlier Rolls Royce blue that came with the ele. Commander loco, but the green cars that were the very last to be produced). I plan to put them behind my O ga. 3322 Piper when finished because the late wide gauge green Pres. cars came with a steam loco and probably a Piper loco. Does anyone know where I could find that shade of green or aqua paint? I probably need to make a new post for this question because I'm responding to a response and not to the original posting topic.
About this original posting:
I may have more time to join in here, and not just read the tinplate forum every morning like I've done for years now. I have one question for you guys, and I'm not sure if everyone has reasons or there's rules of ethics between you guys, but I saw that loco auction on what some call "The Chesapeake BAY". Are all of you communicating? Or are maybe 5 to 10 of you secretly bidding against each other, driving up (even doubling-tripling) the final cost to your friend? It's just a question. If I get on here I want to play by the rules. And I'm not just talking about the rules of the webmaster, the rules that bond the friendship here. I live west of Louisville, KY in southern IN and there are ZERO people that are into (or ever had been into) prewar trains. And I think every time I show a person my collection for the past 30 years they have NEVER seen the huge standard gauge antique trains. Not even a number 8! They look for 5 minutes and usually ask "why do you spend that much money of that?" - "show me that incredible gun collection". My gun collection is probably worth 5% of my trains. It's a different world around here. It seems that the "banjo music" still plays in these parts!
