Hey Y’all;
Last year with some settlement money I purchased Bachmann’s Virginia & Truckee passenger set named “Silverado”.
Locomotive is painted in fancy lined out 1870 style with coach and combine in yellow with green trim.
Nice looking train.
A huge anachronism.
Mallory Hope Ferrell’s Book Virginia & Truckee the Bonanza Road has a chronology of passenger car hues on page 70 put together from newspaper articles of the time.
1870 - maroon coaches
1874 - fawn yellow
1874 - green
1874 - light green
1877 - dark cherry red with yellow trucks
1878 - dark crimson or claret
1880 - wine
1885 - “glaring yellow stripped with maroon (a sort of old orange the writer added)” My assumption is “old orange” referred to the yellow as it is difficult to see how orange would look like red-brown maroon.
1890-1910 - “turn of the century” is used instead of dates. yellow with brown trim and trucks
1920 - yellow with green letter boards and trim.
There’s a half-century difference between color schemes of loco and cars. That has been bugging me more and more over the last year.
Set comes with combine and observation. Also now have baggage kit and second-hand coach (ex-observation)
thanks to generosity of a couple guys.
Was going to paint baggage kit yellow and green to match rest of cars. Had it primed with letterboard and underframe sprayed green then decided to repaint all the cars.
Okay, what color to use ??? Thought about it couple months.
Alright, one of the red hues.
Now, what spray paint is there?
Settled on Krylon 53503 Satin Burgundy
Have baggage kit sprayed now.
Primer is going to be a necessity as Burgundy seems to be a touch translucent.
