As I sit waiting for hopefully the last application of filler putty to dry, I look at the back of my "work bench" at the other "in progress" project that sits waiting for the EOY Challenge to conclude. It is my OMI Reading GP39-2 that through a nice person on the "Brass Collectors" forum, I was able to acquire the parts to make repairs to the broken gear tower.

Once that work has been completed and the decoder and speaker have been installed, the next step would be paint. That presents yet another problem! I have plenty of reference material of the exterior of this class of locomotives on the Reading to paint and letter this beauty ... except for one area ... this model has a "complete" cab interior and I have no clue what color any of that should be! Maybe one or more of the 1:1 scale railroaders could help me out here, or if not, I'll have to search in the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society archives (or ask someone there to search for me.) I never used to worry about such details, but lately I've become obsessed with accuracy ...

... what a curse! I'll have to work on toning that down ... after I finish the Reading GP39-2.

I would need to know the colors of the floor, walls, seats and the "control stand," including any extra colors on that control stand. In looking for something else a week or so ago I happened on a cab interior shot that showed the control stand, with a large light-colored area on it, but I only paused momentarily as I was intent on finding this other thing (Scale Test Car details) and was not going to allow myself to be distracted (fighting the ADD) and now I don't know where I saw it!

Any assistance with these details will be greatly appreciated. Once again, my intense fascination with details and detail correctness, which was an asset as a product designer, has become a debilitating curse, a proverbial thorn in my side!

ThIs photo on rrpics shows the back wall good enough to determin the color of the back wall

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It's a good start, once I'm free I'll try to dig deeper

Found one of a GP7



I love that machine green

Thanks, Tom Must Tang. I appreciate it.

It's a good start and at least gives me some idea.

I did find an image on RailPictures.Net, take by a Matt Adams of a SDP40 that looks similar to what is apparently in the cab of my GP39-2. [In the past I would have just posted the photo, but now I can't even link to it because I saved it to a research folder on diesel cab interiors but did not get the links for each one so I probably should wait until we are sitting over a cup of coffe or a Yeungling or a Rolling Rock or something when I can then show you on my laptop because we're only taliking about research for building a model and not "publishing" someone else's photo, but like that's ever going to happen!

Anyway ... THWI ... here is Mr. Adams' photo ... we are really only discussing prototype details, colors, in regards to building a model, not unlike discussing those lines from "Gone with the Wind" where Rhett says, "Frankly, Scarlet ..." as that set of lines relates to early profanity in film. This is a discussion between a couple of friends ... we're out after authenticity ... building the prototype in miniature!

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Here's the whole thread on railroad.net - 6 pages of cab interiors!
http://railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php...&sk=t&sd=a


--Randy

Thanks, Randy! That is a big help for this old steam guy. I wouldn't know half of them if they pulled up my driveway, but I know which one the GP39-2 is and that's the one I needed!

Thanks!