So, I have this from the official EMD Painting & Styling diagram for AD&N 150, an SW-1500 that was bought new from EMD by the AD&N in 1970. I am interested in matching the yellow and green as closely as possible to paint several N scale locomotives. I’ve tried searching both the EMD numbers and the Reference numbers with no luck. Any help would be appreciated.
Wow. Sorry I can't answer your call for help, but this is really fascinating! I love stuff like this.
You might want to try contacting EMD or DuPont if you are serious about this. They may have a hex number or some kind of paint code to mix the color. The only problem I see is; what will you do once you get that information? We are pretty much limited by what paints are commercially available. Even if they do give you the paint code, how will you make it? I think you are still going to have to mix it by hand, and you can do that just from photos. The yellow and green scheme reminds me of the Reading 'Bee Line' scheme. Southern Sylvan Green might be another close match. It may be worth looking at Scalecoat or Tru-color just to see which greens and yellows would make good starting points.
I was trying to find if any other railroads might have used those colors since EMD supposedly did not do a lot of custom colors. I haven’t been able to find those codes in any of the references that I can find. The AD&N isn’t listed in any of those references either. If I am unable to find an exact match, from “eyeballing,” I will probably use Polly Scale CN&W Green & Reefer Yellow.
Is the green in your avatar close to what the prototype actually was/is? If so, that's too green and too bright for CNW green. That's more like MKT or apple green. Doug
No, sir. The green in question is different. This is a photograph of AD&N 150 on October 26, 1975 in the scheme that is from the Styling & Painting diagram. The EMD diagram was dated April 14, 1970. This is a Mike Condren photo retrieved from this page: https://condrenrails.com/AD&N/index.html There are pictures of other AD&N units, in various lighting conditions, on that page, as well
Now, if that is what it really looks like, that IS close the CNW green. It can actually look almost black in shade. Doug
