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Does anyone have any insight into the selection of blue and gray for the Eagle colors? Who chose them? Why?
True Color paint has several that are for the blue and gray.
Bill Basden
Thank you, Bill!
But I think my question is misunderstood: I am not asking about selecting modern paints for models. I am asking who selected the colors when MoPac dieselized and why, if such information is available.
True Color has Eagle Blue and Eagle Grey, as well as Jenks Blue.
My favorite color story:
M1 Modeler with Blue Loco
M2 Know it all Modeler
M1 showed up one day with a Loco painted Blue. (Do not remember the names)
M2: What color is that?
M1: Jenks Blue
M2: No it is not, not enough green.
M1: Yes, it is Jenks Blue.
M2: I know what Jenks Blue looks like, and that is not the same!
M1: Well, I got a can of paint from the MP Paint shop, and this is the actual paint MP used to paint Locomotives.
M2: Oh
I think there is a misunderstanding.
I am not asking about choosing paint for a model.
I am asking who chose the blue and gray for the prototype and why. Why that color combination?
Raymond Lowery who designed the first Eagle passenger train chose the colors and management obviously approved the choice.
Obviously
I don’t suppose he left any documentation explaining the choice.
considering the situation in MO during the Civil War, the combination is appropriate, but I don’t suppose he was cognizant of that.
I think Lowey just liked combining blue and gray. The 1939 gray was lighter but tended to fade and got replaced by a different formulation. Lowey designed the paint scheme for Air Force One which uses a lot of blues, whites, and complementary colors.
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