Historic Depot Paint Colors, Paint Liveries Or Paint Schemes - Exterior And Interior - Inquiry

From his book by Don Banwart Rails, Rivalry and Romance, page 314, “The Frisco Paint Gang arrived in Ft Scott in the Spring of 1922, and painted all the buildings. The new “lead” color gave the building(s) a brighter appearance than the traditional “red” previously used. “

This periscope helps confirm some previous assumptions.

1. Frisco depots and other structures were indeed red.
2. The switch from red to gray (lead) occurred during the early 1920s.

 

Thanks Karl.

This is very helpful.

Somehow I missed the original post.

Dale Rush
Carthage, MO
(Modeling the Clinton Sub in N scale)

 

I stumbled onto this today and it reminded me of this thread.

Monett Times, 9 September 1921:

"The section house is being repainted today. The Frisco which has always painted their railway offices and buildings red, is now painting them gray."

 

Historic depot paint colors, paint liveries, or paint schemes from the late 1880s-mid 1890s best guess information request.

Anyone?

If no one has better information, I will be going with red/oxide red for my Frisco depots in my V scale rendition of the Frisco from Monett, MO to Talihina, OK.

Andre

 

My best guesses

 

Excellent summary.

I am going to go back and paint my trim dark gray.

-Bob T.

 

Thanks Karl.

So, possibly it was a three tone scheme?

Ugh. Worst possible scenario for virtual painting using photo textures.

I do know that some of the earliest photographs I have of the Frisco on the Ft. Smith Subdivision, probably not called that at first, shows some light colored depots.

Such as this one that is allegedly an early train captioned as 1881 and as the "first" train at Rogers, AR.



Then there is this photograph of what is suspected to be the Rogers, AR roundhouse dated early 1880s.



Then there is what might be the original depot at Combs, AR that is obviously dark.

However, could it be this depot was constructed under the ownership of the Fayetteville and Little Rock (F&LR) Railroad, thus a different color all together and yet to be repainted by the Frisco?

That is is now Frisco property is insinuated by the mileage figure on the "COMBS" sign.



Total confusion reigns on my part. Thus the temptation to just use oxide red.