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Did Scott make the right choice?  Everyone's individual eye decides yes or no.  As for me, I have not voiced my opinion.  I merely posted a photo for thought.

I agree completely that everyone's eyes will decide. I recall being at the Cleveland 2 rail show a few years ago and a fellow came to me asking about the shade of a color used on a GGD streamlined train. i agreed with him that it appeared to be off by a large margin.

Scott had depended on a gent to supply the color as he was a very influential member of the XX Historical Society. The fellow knew steam power but was not a good judge of color. Scott and I had a conversation regarding that. I personally had a 14 car GGD train with 3 F units of that railway and sold it all since I couldn't get past the error ( at least to me it was).

Now tuscan red on the PRR ? That is almost any shade of red you want it to be. I have a color film taken with my grandfather in about 1950 in Baltimore that shows a fairly bright red B60 baggage car. Every other car in the movie is a browner shade of tuscan red, but this car was much brighter.

I have a 30 inch square PRR emblem cut out of a passenger car as it was being scrapped and it has been said to me by a number of PRR "experts" that the shade of tuscan is incorrect. But it is "real" tuscan from a real car. Plus in the 1960's I worked for the PRR handling mail on passenger trains. It was unusual to see two cars painted the same which goes to your point about aging.

R. Heil  --  Sunset Models / Golden Gate Depot / 3rd Rail

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