MP depot paint and roof color

[bargetanika]

1. When did MP start painting depots white?
2. Doors, windows and trim were white also, right?
3. What color was the roof?

[peggyrothschild]

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

[Daniel Duckworth]

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

[peggyrothschild]

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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