Hey Y’all; Decided to use cream and tan Virginia & Truckee 18-something colors like preserved caboose-coach No. 9 at museum on Bachmann G scale 4-wheel bobber caboose kit got last year when there was money in the family. Not at all a prototypical caboose for V&T; and, yeah, so? 
Spray colors were used. Cheap Walmart tan for the overall cream; Testors model paint Wood for the light brown trim; and Krylon Fusion Satin Dover White, an off white, for roof. Frustratingly got better finish out the the bargain basement takes a week to dry WM paint than the Testors which bubbled and spat at the nozzle and gave a bit of a grainy finish. Did discover it would have been both simpler and vastly more economical of tape to have sprayed the trim Testors wood, then masked doors and windows and sprayed body color. Oh well, live and learn. Microscale decal lining will be used for what lining is added. Not sure how much want to do. Microscale lettering decals will be used too. Can only give impression of V&T style lettering as there seems to be none exactly like.
Had stuck handrails on before painting trim knwing it might be trouble. Got end ones off okay but couldn’t seem to get curved side rails off without breaking retainer tabs, so masked over them.
Need to take some bottle paint to do roof end trim where ladders connect. Wheels are Testors 1138 grey bottle paint after reading somewhere, maybe Mallory Hope Ferrell’s book, Virginia & Truckee, The Bonanza Road, that in early days V&T painted wheels grey on some cars or another. Don’t remember if it was freight cars, passenger cars, or both. Handrails should be cream color too but I had zero idea what would stick to whatever their plastic is; and black fits theme of other cars from sets anyway. Am contemplating repainting passenger cars from Bachmann’s V&T G scale set: they are in yellow and green which is later than 1870-ish colors of locomotive. Car colors, well . . . ? Seem to be several to choose from. Probably pass on maroon or green. I’m liking that cream/tan and tan/light brown (whichever names you wish to use) color scheme. Which raises the question, what will reliably prime over Bachmann yellow? Or will the cheapie Walmart do well? And where will new lettering come from?
Great job!