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

    #10510
    wba2485811
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      True Color paint has several that are for the blue and gray.

      Bill Basden

      #10511

      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.

      #10513

      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

      #10514

      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?

      #10515
      Charles Duckworth
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        Raymond Lowery who designed the first Eagle passenger train chose the colors and management obviously approved the choice.

        #10516

        Obviously :D

        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.

        #10521
        sjogden
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          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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