Shadow the Cats owner I know my hubby and I when we repaint our bedroom are leaning towards either the two tone grey used by the UP or maybe I can convince him to go Wabash Blue with Grey. I know when he repaints his train room after the last kid leaves the colors are going to be Santa Fe Blue for the trim with Santa Fe Yellow doors only on the inside of the room. Yes I have been looking for UP steam sheets also why after seeing the Big Boy in Rochelle in 2019 I realized just how magificent these engines truly are.
I know my hubby and I when we repaint our bedroom are leaning towards either the two tone grey used by the UP or maybe I can convince him to go Wabash Blue with Grey. I know when he repaints his train room after the last kid leaves the colors are going to be Santa Fe Blue for the trim with Santa Fe Yellow doors only on the inside of the room. Yes I have been looking for UP steam sheets also why after seeing the Big Boy in Rochelle in 2019 I realized just how magificent these engines truly are.
Good choices!
I have read that Victorian houses were often in bright colors (even gaudy by today's standards of white with a sparse dark trim). There are a few houses in my city that are, um... "different". One has each strip of siding in a different BRIGHT SOLID color... RED, GREEN, BLUE, YELLOW, etc. Other houses here and there are all one bright RED or YELLOW, even one is an ELECTRIC BLUE (for want of a better name). They all seem out-of-place in the neighborhoods they are in.
I will say that those Buffalo homes are very pretty. I think one reason they are much nicer looking is the style of the house and that the homes seem to be in good repair and the yards are neat and trim (unlike the "weed-jungles" around some of the ones here in this city).
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If I wanted to paint the house in Jersey Central's blue and tangerine scheme, that would never fly - wwwaaaayyyy too close to University of Florida's colors. My diehard garnet-and-gold-to-the-bone Florida State fan wife would literally shoot me, even if she had to do it in front of witnesses. I'd like to paint the house in Seaboard Air Line's citrus scheme, but it would be a bear to put on a house.
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But the house is a nice shade of dark green - not quite Brunswick green, but closer to maybe VT. The trim is cedar, though - not really railroady.
Before this is was almost Conrail blue...
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54light15: Those are some fine-looking houses! I may have to change my opinion of what Buffalo must be like! Actually, I read a lot of good things about Buffalo these days, like a new train station, and now these houses.
I'm not sure about you other guys, but I can just imagine telling my Mrs. that we are going to paint the house Tuscan red, or Armour yellow, or black with grey stripes, or any of the other locomotive color combinations being bruited about here. Haven't you guys learned about the "Happy wife, happy life" principle? Or are you single?
Here's houses in Buffalo- I've seen some of them. They are mostly in an area called Elmwood Village where there's some excellent bars and restaurants. There's about 5 Frank Lloyd Wright houses there too, one or more are still private homes. I'll make it to Newfoundland one of these days.
https://www.newyorkupstate.com/buffalo/2016/05/elmwood_village_photos_of_colorful_and_unique_houses_in_buffalo_neighborhood.html
I tried to paste a link to google images of Buffalo houses but had no luck. Tuscan red with yelllow "whiskers" reminsicent of a GG1 would look good on a house, don't you think?
Flintlock76 Here's a whole color palette to choose from. https://www.american-rails.com/heritage.html
Here's a whole color palette to choose from.
https://www.american-rails.com/heritage.html
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Somewhat related- I know of a house in our city where the owners are HUGE Green Bay Packers fans. That does not bode well for the rest of the neighborhood.I heard a man give directions to his own house over the phone, by explaining his location in relation to "that house". For my tastes, I think i could work with PRR Tuscan Red, and CBQ Chinese(?) red and light gray.
Colorful houses? Try Saint John's, Newfoundland.
https://escapismmagazine.com/promotion/why-to-visit-st-johns-newfoundland-labrador-canada/
Overland Limited 2-tone gray.
NP Lowey North Coast Limited 2-tone green
You want exotic painted schemes for houses? Go to Buffalo, N.Y. There are houses there with four or five exterior colours. I've never seen anything like them and Buffalo is the only place where I have. A house in the warbonnet colours of the SF Super Chief would not look out of place. Say, red with yellow, black and silver trim bits. A Navajo symbol like the SF's logo could be attached somewhere or painted on the shutters if there are any. I imagine if you google Buffalo houses you would get the idea.
Hmmm, there ARE possibilites.
Pennsylvania Railroad "Tuscan Red," Jersey Central "Blue and Tangerine," or you could also do "Sea Green" with Dulux Gold stripes, or go real Jersey Central retro with "Blue Comet Royal Blue."
And there's B&O "Royal Blue," The New Haven's Maginnis scheme, The possibilities are almost endless.
Forget Penn Central black.
I think there are a few automobile types that would look good in the Sante Fe "Warbonnet" paint scheme, but few houses would be of a shape that would be enhanced by anything locomotive inspired... but if you just want colors, pick your favourite livery and have at it.
No, but if I did, it would follow the NYC - black siding, white trim, with a cigar band logo on each side.
Have you ever been inspired to paint your house exterior based on a railroad color scheme that appealed to you?
We are looking at paint schemes, and I am looking at mid-century locomotive paint schemes as inspiration.
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