Dear John,
The real question is IF the CNJ RDC roofs were ever painted
black. The consensus among CNJ fans is that black you see is soot.
The CNJ was almost bankrupt when the photos of the black roofs
appear. They questions posed is why would a broke railroad spend any
money on painting stainless steel roofs? But, I am sure you could
weather the roof to make it look like the CNJ's RDCs and cover the
crazed finish.
I dug my RDC out of the basement today and hope to bring to work
on Monday.
Don
On Jun 11, 2011, at 11:18 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> Don,
>
> The RDC that I have had a crazed roof, the finish had some waves in
> the
> surface so I tried to find and RDC that had a colored roof to cover
> the
> waves. The CNJ's looked to fir what I needed as a prototype.
>
> I used #556 as my target. See:
> _http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=35283_
> (http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=35283
> )
>
> Working off the model the lettering would be 8 inches and the
> numbers in
> the upper number boards would 4" high and the side number board
> would 8
> inches also.
>
> There doesn't seem to be a preponderance of HO decals available
> either.
>
> From the pictures on the net you'd never know the lettering was
> green. Was
> the roof green also? I used a dull matte black.
>
> John Griffin
> Des Plaines Valley
>
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>
>
>
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