MP depot paint and roof color

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  • November 12, 2021 at 4:02 pm #6559
    bargetanika
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    1. When did MP start painting depots white?
    2. Doors, windows and trim were white also, right?
    3. What color was the roof?

    November 12, 2021 at 4:31 pm #10377
    peggyrothschild
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    Pat
    Hopefully this may help. As to roofs in later years I’d suggest gray shingles.
    http://www.mopac.org/archives/bridges-and-buildings/20-mopac-building-paint-standards-1910-1982

    April 14, 2022 at 9:42 pm #10485
    Daniel Duckworth
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    Doing some MP Arkansas Division buildings, and wondering if anyone knows what the MP interior colors were likely to be in the 55-61 time frame. I like to have something other than black showing through the windows (my shelf layout height puts them within easy looking). Looking at adding photo interiors sometime, but in the meantime.

    Ben

    April 15, 2022 at 12:57 pm #10486
    peggyrothschild
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    Ben
    I recall the interior of the freight room at Beloit, Kansas was the same as the 1926 exterior colors Colonial yellow and brown. Steve McVey once told me one of the depots of the White River interior was painted the same yellow inside. Years ago I was working in the General Office and someone from Newport, Arkansas called me asking about the interior colors as they were restoring the station. I didn’t know but told them they could carefully sand through the layers of paint of the walls and determine from that what color(s) were used. I asked them to call me back with the results of their finding but they never did.

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