A PAINT CHIP

Color matching model trains from prototype photos is tricky business. Shades can fool you. Fortunately when it came time to “pick the shade of blue” for our HO Limited Edition Yreka Western S-4’s we had a better option. Although the prototype S-4’s are long gone from the YWRR there is a boxcar in their yard that solved our situation. YWRR had 43 ex-WP boxcars painted in the same blue paint in the late 1960’s. One car was damaged switching in Hornbrook one day and has set in the Yreka yard ever since as the other forty two were scrapped. With the Railroad’s permission we were able to find an excellent loose paint chip on the inside of the car, just inside the doors and unweathered. Passing it on to the Atlas paint-matching lab our locomotives now have their true color.

These models are available at the DUNSMUIR HARDWARE and the YREKA WESTERN RAILROAD GIFT SHOP.

http://www.dunsmuirhardware.com/

http://www.yrekawesternrr.com/