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I too have an interest in this period, though plan to work to a smaller scale.Over the last several months I have been gathering material from the web and a small library, comprising Abdill, Alexander's CW RR and Models and the White volumes on rolling stock.I have a pretty good idea where I'm going (if not quite how to get there), but would really appreciate any help in two areas:First, colour schemes. Locomotives seem often to have been painted to the manufacturer's taste rather than to a Road livery.  This seems to extend to USMRR locos. J R Wilkes has a useful page dedicated to Mason schemes, though focussed on the 1870s, and SMR trains have colour photos of their O Gauge Masons.  As I am interested in modelling an 1860s Mason, this has proved useful.Alexander's book is tantalising because, though he must have arrived at conclusions about colour schemes in order to model locos and stock, I don't know what those conclusions were because all the pictures are black and white and the text is silent on the matter. For instance, what colour is his Orange & Alexandria RR coach?  There are two Pennsylvania RR coaches pictured on the O & A in Abdill, but had the well known PRR coach livery been adopted back then?The second problem area is the relative paucity of plans.  As someone based in the Caribbean (soon to be UK), I am unlikely to track down a copy of the March 1969 MR and so any chance of copies would be greatly appreciated.Spod
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