Blue and Gray

[monikabidwill9523]

Does anyone have any insight into the selection of blue and gray for the Eagle colors? Who chose them? Why?

[mmurphy]

True Color paint has several that are for the blue and gray.

Bill Basden

[monikabidwill9523]

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.

[elsaanderson820]

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

[monikabidwill9523]

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?

[peggyrothschild]

Raymond Lowery who designed the first Eagle passenger train chose the colors and management obviously approved the choice.

[monikabidwill9523]

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.

[Mike Vana]

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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