Stein's Minneapolis Warehouse district 1957 (HO)

[steinjr]

I'm not real familiar with C&NW, but isn't the color more of a Brunswick green than black on the switcher?

Hmmm - I checked to see how the color was described various places:

From http://utahrails.net/cnw/cnw-roster-notes.php:

The North Western will always be associated with the use of the classic green-and-yellow color scheme, which was first applied to the "400" streamliner EMD E3A cab units in 1939. The dark green was commonly referred to as "Candy Apple Green" while the yellow was known as "Stagecoach Yellow." With the exception of an experimental all-green scheme applied in the 1950s, use of these two colors continued on new locomotives without interruption through 1980, when EMD applied the Stagecoach yellow and green colors to 50 GP50s using DuPont enamel.

Also had a look at the Chicago and North Western society's webpages. And sure enough - it is described more as a dark green than black.

Testor also has a color named "CNW green": http://www.testors.com/products/137469.

So you are obviously right - what looked to me like black in a couple of prototype photos is actually dark green. Bad research on my part. Thank you very much for the tip - much easier to get a paint that will look reasonably right before you paint than it is to try to turn black into dark green afterwards !

Guess I'll be dropping by my local hobby store again after work on Monday

And to Bob : thank you for the kind words. Glad to see you back again.

Smile,
Stein