I'm talking about the non streamlined ones. Was the smoke box area painted silver like most others were? Was it solid black other than the silver area? Was the road number or the frisco symbol put on the cab? Was just the road number put on the tender or did frisco appear on it? I'm not talking about any particular road number, just basic facts.
There were several variations of Frisco steam engine paint schemes, but a non-streamlined "pacific," being a passenger engine had imitation gold letering, numbers and pinstripes. Earlier (I'd guess before WW II) the lettering was a "gilt" gold (like the metal). Freight engines had white numbers and lettering. Oil burners had aluminum fire boxes and smokeboxes that weathered to a "lighter" silver gray color. Coal burners had "graphite" smoke boxes and fire boxes that weathered to a darker "charcoal" color. The large engine number was on the tender. "F-R-I-S-C-O" was lettered under the cab window. The "Frisco" lettering on the cab was the same font lettering as in the freight car coonskin herald, but with letters spaced further apart. There are some REAL steam engine experts on this chat board that can give you much more detailed measurements, paint mixes and decal information and probably corrections to what I have here. Tom
Howdy, Here is a link to a mixture of Floquil paint that is accurate: http://www.frisco.org/vb/showthread.php?t=1241. Have fun, mike
pacifics Speaking of the Pacifics, does anyone know how prototypical the IHC semi-streamlined Pacifics are to the real McCoy?
Re: pacifics Thanks for posting that. That's what engine I have. I'm not sure if it's semi-streamlined or not. One question I forgot to ask was were any of the cab roofs painted this "oxide red"? Is there any pictures that someone has of a real life or model of a pacific they could show me?
Re: pacifics John: In a word: "ugh!" I received IHC #1062, which I think may be the to which you refer (I think it's lettered for #1062) as a gift. For starters, the paint scheme and number is correct...but for a Hudson-type (4-6-4)! It's also a coal-burner when it should be an oil-burner. I've been s-l-o-w-l-y converting mine to Pacific #1057 (see the thread at http://www.frisco.org/vb/showthread.php?t=382). To use a quote that Byron Henderson used in Model Railroad Planning a few years back, I'm moving at a "glacial pace." Once it's done, though, I think it'll be a good 3-foot model.
