Matching old Floquil lacquer color with acrylic paint

[Anonymous]

I'm in a bind! After 40 years of using Floquil lacquers, I'm in an apartment complex where the odor would break my lease--not to mention affect me and the Lady Cat who lives with me. Years ago, when I belonged to the B&O RR Historical Society, there was a running discussion about the practice of painting cab roofs and tender tops red. It seems some divisions did and others didn't, but the color they used was B&O's "Freight Car Red", which they used from the 1830s right up into the late 1950s. Mel Thornburgh called this color "Indian Red", but the Society boys agreed that Floquil's #110088 "DH10 CABOOSE RED" was either dead on--or so close it didn't matter. Floquil never made this color, which was manufactured for the contest to build a D&H Caboose #10, in which the Brotherhood of RR Trainmen was formed. The contest was sponsored by the Brotherhood and judged by (NMRA? MR?).

Floquil never duplicated this color in their "Poly-S" line, and later dropped it altogether. I've built an O scale model of a special type of turn of the century B&O 34' boxcar of styrene, and I have some of Russ Clover's excellent dry transfers with which to letter it--but how do I match DH10 CABOOSE RED in acrylics? Anyone know the answer? (Wish I'd written to "Ask Paint Shop" years ago, when I started building the car!) Thanx.

dhammons

[jrbarney]

Dhammons,
Welcome to the MR Forums !
Gee, somebody else old enough to remember Mel Thornburgh's articles. I haven't checked, but possibly you'll find a match among the Bill Havilla color mixes listed at the JAShaw Web site:
http;//www.birch.net/~jashaw/
Scroll down toward the bottom of the Shaw's site. As an alternative, you could re-establish contact with the B&O RR Historical Society to see what they currently suggest.
Bob
NMRA life 0543