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Saturday, April 21, 2018

A Pleasant Coincidence

Greetings All,

As some readers are well aware I have been painting my New York Central, Penn Central and Empire Belt rolling stock with Krylon rattle can Sea Glass Green. Recently I stumbled across a very pleasant coincidence. A newly purchased Roundhouse P&LE boxcar was a very close match for the home painted cars. Even better I found my small fleet of Accurail NYC cars were an almost exact match of the rattle can color. 

Let's take a look;

Roundhouse brand 40' P&LE boxcar purchased at recent train show
Accurail 50' boxcar, Roundhouse 40' boxcar(shown above), home painted Empire Belt 50' car with NYC oval and three Accurail NYC cars blending in very nicely. A pleasant coincidence indeed!
Home painted Empire Belt freight cars bring up the rear. PC caboose 18418 is home painted using Jade Green rattle can paint form a company called American Slings. The bay window caboose is factory painted from Athearn. 
On the Empire City viaduct factory and home painted cars intermingle 
Not a bad match if I do say so myself! E.B.R.R. 50'er is home painted, the next four cars are factory painted from Accurail and then another E.B.R.R. home painted car.
As a home painter of rolling stock having my home painted cars blend in seamlessly to some of their factory painted counterparts is very rewarding. 

Here's a short video of the train above rumbling thru Empire City.



Thanks for reading and watching!


8 comments:

  1. Krylon's Sea Glass was a happy find! Your painted cars blend perfectly! Very pleasant coincidence indeed! Thanks for having alerted me to this color a while ago!

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    1. Thanks Ralph and a you're welcome Ralph! If I'm not mistaken I think our first endeavor with the Sea Glass green was the 60' PC/TOC auto parts car.

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  2. Nice demonstration of your custom painted rolling stock and factory painted cars. I like the looks of your white EBRR car as well.

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  3. The cars look great! The Patti-O paint shop has truly outdone itself! I did notice a different looking EB paint scheme. Is that a white EB box car with black lettering? If so, please elaborate. If not, what road is it?

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    1. Thanks for the compliments 1:1 Sir Neal!!! You have a good eye, that was an E.B.R.R. in white paint with black lettering. It's an experimental paint scheme taken from the original A.P.R.R. Evans 50' double door boxcars scheme. The car was from the purgatory box and had some paint issues early on in the project but the end result came out pretty good.

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  4. That sure is a good match. As always, very nice work comes out of the Patti-O Paint Shop.

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