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Interior Colors for Heavyweight Passenger Cars?

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Interior Colors for Heavyweight Passenger Cars?
Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 2:11 PM
I just got two Branchline Heavyweight Passenger Cars and I am going to go all out on the painting of them. However, I am not real sure at what interior color should be used? Were the colors road specific?

Any help in this area, would be greatly appreciated.

(Oh...BTW...I am modeling C&NW)
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Posted by tomwatkins on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 7:04 AM
The colors were road specific. They could also vary depending on the time period modeled on a specific road. I'm sorry but I don't know about the C&NW, perhaps their historical society could provide the info you're looking for.
Sorry I couldn't help more,
Tom Watkins
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 8:50 AM
Yup...was thinkin the same thing. I'll email the guys at the HS and see what they can come up with.

Thanks anyway Tom.
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Posted by CMSTPP on Monday, December 19, 2005 5:04 PM
Actually most the cars were painted in one curtain scheme. Now this true for the Milwaukee, NP, GN, and a few other railroads. The seats were a green and pretty much everything else was cream color such as the walls and the ceiling. alot of the metal in the cars were crome plated like around the windows or the metal in the bathrooms. The floors were mostly made up of tiles but it varied in tiles with the different railroads. You may have to do some research, but the C&NW was one such railroad with these interiors. James
The Milwaukee Road From Miles City, Montana, to Avery, Idaho. The Mighty Milwaukee's Rocky Mountain Division. Visit: http://www.sd45.com/milwaukeeroad/index.htm

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