Carson Car Shops

You knew I would do it... Make all the colors of the rainbow...

Here's a 'clean' green. I need comments on the color. (I am not familiar with the proper railroad colors, though.)
There is a lot of work still yet to be done.





EDIT:
Here's all three 34 footers so far for those following this thread...




Here's all three 28 footers so far for those following this thread...





Have fun!

Looks good!

Boxcars were painted all different colors back then, so likely whatever you do will be prototypical. (and it's not like there were color photographs back then to prove you wrong ) I believe Tuscon red wasn't a 'standard' color 'til the 1890's or so. Generally, it seems the roof and underside were also painted the body color. That's an error on my versions - I left the undersides as unpainted wood...

Curtis

I like it. I only wish the V&T, UP and the CP were all narrow gauge.
Keep up the good work.

Ken

The UP owned the DSP&P at one point. I seem to recall the V&T owned the C&C. Don't know about CP, unless you count SP, which did have narrow gauge.

While I know about locomotive colors for the 1860s-1930s, I don't know much about freight car colors. Boxcar red seems most common, but there was a lot of variation in that color. Yellow and white were common on reefers, but also found use on some ventilated boxcars. Green seemed to be popular for tool cars. Here is one of my museum's tool cars, showing a coat of green. We have an unrestored Western Union tool car, also green. The color you have there looks a bit like the color on the WU car.

Edit: I also remember seeing some black boxcars somewhere. I can't remember what road it was, though.

I noticed very little wood grain on that car, Ben. I wonder if I'm showing too much? Do I need to tone the wood grain down a bit? Hmmm...

Freshly painted cars almost never show any wood grain, until you get very close. Our weathered work car doesn't show much grain through the paint, because the paint peeled, exposing the wood.
Here's some pics of our Western Union work car:
1
2, kinda blurry
3, just a corner but closer than the rest

A lot of D&RGW freight cars do show the wood grain, though. I'm not sure why.
Here's a weathered D&RGW car at the C&T.

Well, thanks for those shots.
It appears that Curtis was basically right... Most anything goes. Hmmm.

I like the two tones or is that primer on the roof?


In my case above, it's just had it's first coat of paint and is awaiting for more coats... What do ya think?

I'll certainly keep all this in mind. Being a logging fanatic, I know anything goes. LOL

Thanks,

Here's a little update for green;

Hey Rick
Looks real nice. I love that shade of green.
Just a little curious, though, would there be a chance to make the ladder rungs and the door harware a darker color, let's say black or dark grey ??

You mean like this?



Already done it.

YEP.
Now all you need are sets of rusty archbars and black archbars.
Then all you need are ..................

Whoa, wait a minit, you're a trainz man, you should already know what to do.


Keep it up bud. Fine work. That means more old stuff is catching up wif the new stuff.
Soon, we'll be older than we were then and not as new as we are now......

Ken

This one's for Ken. A 'clean' green one. (I'll clean up the files then get it posted.)



Final version...


Let's see, who's next? How about a brown one...

That really looks great. I'm ready to ride now.
BTW, where will it be uploaded ?? I'll get the brown one, too.

Got all the files cleaned up and, boy, that was quit a challenge removing all the ARN in all the files AND keeping the animated doors and sounds working, sheesh.

She'll go on my web site and the TPRDD after I make an attempt at one more little feature I want to try. Might be a few more days still.

Happy New Year, everybody,

My little addition has worked beautifully and has only taken a day so, it's now posted at my site, (Click sig link below), and at the TPRDD;

http://trainzproroutes.com/downloads/index.php

Enjoy!