Hello all,
Hopefully one of you know the answer to the following question:
At the Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum, we are cleaning up the paint on our ALCo S-4, former Central Vermont 8081. Luckily the paint is scraping back to the late 60' to early 80's paint, black body, red ends. The problem is the light grey lettering. This paint in indirect daylight is a very light grey, almost battleship grey, but when a beam of light his it, it reflects white.
Does anyone know who currently makes this type of paint, or what the industrial name of it is?
This is how she is looking now:
This is how she looked in the late 60's:
Both are linked fron the NERails Photo Archive, first photo is by Tom Nanos, June 12, 2004, and the second is from Brian Nicholson, June, 1977.
The white paint you will see in the current photo is the K&L Feeds paint that is scraping off. Apparently who ever did the green and yellow paint of the 80's didn't prep the surface correctly, since it and everything afterward is coming off in one piece.
Thanks for your help,
Rich Cizik
MoW Foreman
Ct Eastern RR Museum
Willimantic, Ct
www.cteastrrmuseum.org
Hopefully one of you know the answer to the following question:
At the Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum, we are cleaning up the paint on our ALCo S-4, former Central Vermont 8081. Luckily the paint is scraping back to the late 60' to early 80's paint, black body, red ends. The problem is the light grey lettering. This paint in indirect daylight is a very light grey, almost battleship grey, but when a beam of light his it, it reflects white.
Does anyone know who currently makes this type of paint, or what the industrial name of it is?
This is how she is looking now:
This is how she looked in the late 60's:
Both are linked fron the NERails Photo Archive, first photo is by Tom Nanos, June 12, 2004, and the second is from Brian Nicholson, June, 1977.
The white paint you will see in the current photo is the K&L Feeds paint that is scraping off. Apparently who ever did the green and yellow paint of the 80's didn't prep the surface correctly, since it and everything afterward is coming off in one piece.
Thanks for your help,
Rich Cizik
MoW Foreman
Ct Eastern RR Museum
Willimantic, Ct
www.cteastrrmuseum.org
