One of our model railroad club members discovered …
that this is what happens when you keep one locomotive of a pair out on display & one in the box for a few years
- and you smoke.
You should see how the red on a Santa Fe USAT F3 fades with any light at all… although believe it or not, Armorall will bring the deep red color back.
That picture shows what I would guess is UV-induced yellowing.
Greg
Greg Elmassian said:
That picture shows what I would guess is UV-induced yellowing.
Does that usually wash off and leave brown water?
Edit: Oh, and in a related thought, it also brings up that white styrene model kit plastic will yellow even while buried in its box in a closet for a couple decades - I have an unbuilt Revell/Monogram 1/72 scale Space Shuttle stack which has yellowed dramatically while doing exactly that.
Somewhere there is a photo of it that I took a couple years ago, don’t know where, and right now my body isn’t up to digging it out to get a new photo to show.
I recently ordered a set of steel cabinets to store my locomotives and vinyl lettering supplies. I always used to have the locos on display and they would pick up dust from sitting. Now we have a new cat who loves to chase the mice around the basement…and he’s really great at it, but my trains get in his way!
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sandusky-46-L-x-24-D-x-72-H-Steel-Jumbo-Garage-Cabinet/35584044 free shipping to your local store.
Rocky Canyonero said:
Now we have a new cat who loves to chase the mice around the basement…and he’s really great at it, but my trains get in his way!
Don’t know that mine would be that energetic.
