Here are some old slides of mine from a trip to Texas & Oklahoma in Dec. 1984. DAVIS Pauls Valley Wynnewood Wolfe City
Nice captures. I've often wondered what kind of architecture and styling was used through Texas and Oklahoma. These remind me of the station that used to grace Victorville. Although, it was shorter and stockier. Thanks for sharing these shots.
I have some pics from a book I have on the Ft. Worth & Denver RR. It shows pics of old stations from Lubbock to Amarillo and over to Childress TX. Since I joined tonight I haven't had time yet to post them..
Jerry, I'm guessing a light tan. The only one I can relate to that is similar was in Victorville, CA. If memory serves me correctly it was similar to Navajo White or Off White.
Thats how I rememeber the one in Antioch before it burned. Kinda an off white, with an almost yellow or tannish tint to it. Of course it was in need of a new paintjob, so its hard to go by memory. The good thing is, anything close will probably look OK.
That's my thinking exactly. Now SP used a lite, almost burnt yellow for their stations and I don't remember any of the smaller ATSF depots being anything but a tan or off white with white trim around the windows. Maybe that's why I had the interior of my mobile home painted Navajo White with white trim. A true ATSF fan at heart....grin! The train station at Riverbank, CA., was an off white as was the one at Oakdale, CA. I would say that was pretty much an official ATSF color. Barstow, CA. with it's red brick and white trim seemed to be the order of the day for various stations along the ATSF. Providing an interesting variety of architecture and station design. The ATSF station in San Bernardino, CA. broke most of the rules. It's still an interesting station to look at. For reasons known only to the Santa Fe Officials, they stopped the finish construction. I suspect they realized the passenger business was dropping off. I still wonder what would have happened if they had topped off the domes with a copper shield.
Now that I think about it....the SP station at Pittsburg was a yellow color. I'll bet thats what I am thinking, as it survived much later then the ATSF one.
Several of the SF standard blueprint depots were painted white. Most were painted Colonial Yellow and (conformation requested) I think Bronze Green.
I want to match the color of those four depots and this one: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=8714. Is the correct paint mix Polly Scale 170 UP Armour Yellow (1 part) and 113 Reefer White (1 part)? I'm basing my question on http://www.rgspemkt.com/Messecar-Paint.html and info from http://www.atsfrr.net/
I need to either scan my pic of the Bartlesville depot or take a new one with the digital. It was finished in stucco, and is unique and just neat. But, for those of you who (like me) may want to model smaller towns along the Santa Fe, here's the Collinsville station served by the Tulsan and Oil Flyer: Edit: Or not. I'll try to remember to try again after my three day probation period...
There are lots of these standard wood depots in yellow all throughout Texas...Lometa, on the Lampassas sub comes to mind...Hitchcock is another.. One of the most unique ATSF depots I've seen is the one in Snyder, TX... I can't tell you how many times I'd bypassed Snyder on the way out to Clovis and points west to railfan the Santa Fe...only when i found out that close family friends met in High school overseas were all from there and had moved back, did i go 'into town' and check it out... I spent last Christmas there and took some time to railfan'...found the depot there...very cool and art-deco...talking to our friends, it seems the blue is the original color...it's abandoned now...i really hope the city doesn't destroy this structure! Bruce
