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=Dominion Atlantic Colours= | =Dominion Atlantic Colours= | ||
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These are Averaged colours using PhotoShop taken from the main steam cyclinder on the model of No. 32 in the Wolfville library. | These are Averaged colours using PhotoShop taken from the main steam cyclinder on the model of No. 32 in the Wolfville library. | ||
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| − | ==No. 537 Model Colours== | + | ====No. 537 Model Colours==== |
Painted in the "c. 1936 - c. 1942" Scheme. Photo and model source unknown. Appears to be extremely accurate. | Painted in the "c. 1936 - c. 1942" Scheme. Photo and model source unknown. Appears to be extremely accurate. | ||
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| − | ==Colour Schemes by Period== | + | ===Colour Schemes by Period=== |
| − | ==1893 to c. 1902== | + | ====1893 to c. 1902==== |
*Colour: Magenta, gold lettering double pinstriping | *Colour: Magenta, gold lettering double pinstriping | ||
*Colour Details: boilers, driving wheels, cab, tender - red; smoke box, tender wheels and trucks - black; Tires - white(1) | *Colour Details: boilers, driving wheels, cab, tender - red; smoke box, tender wheels and trucks - black; Tires - white(1) | ||
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| − | ==c. 1903 to c. 1918== | + | ====c. 1903 to c. 1918==== |
*Colour: Magenta, gold lettering and double striping | *Colour: Magenta, gold lettering and double striping | ||
*Headlight: Often DAR cypher initials | *Headlight: Often DAR cypher initials | ||
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</Gallery> | </Gallery> | ||
| − | ==c. 1918 to c. 1928== | + | ====c. 1918 to c. 1928==== |
*Colour: Tuscan Red, gold lettering | *Colour: Tuscan Red, gold lettering | ||
*Cab: Name, sometimes over small number, art deco sans-serif | *Cab: Name, sometimes over small number, art deco sans-serif | ||
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</Gallery> | </Gallery> | ||
| − | ==c. 1929 - 1935== | + | ====c. 1929 - 1935==== |
*Colour: Tuscan Red, gold lettering and stripes | *Colour: Tuscan Red, gold lettering and stripes | ||
*Sanddome: Number, pinstriping | *Sanddome: Number, pinstriping | ||
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| − | ==c. 1936 - c. 1942== | + | ====c. 1936 - c. 1942==== |
*Colour: Tuscan Red, gold or yellow lettering and stripes | *Colour: Tuscan Red, gold or yellow lettering and stripes | ||
*Tender: Land of Evangeline herald, single pinstripe frame | *Tender: Land of Evangeline herald, single pinstripe frame | ||
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</Gallery> | </Gallery> | ||
| − | ==c. 1943 - 1954== | + | ====c. 1943 - 1954==== |
*Colour: Black, yellow lettering | *Colour: Black, yellow lettering | ||
*Cab: Number, pinstripe frame often omitted | *Cab: Number, pinstripe frame often omitted | ||
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</Gallery> | </Gallery> | ||
| − | == | + | ====1956 - 1959 (S-3s)==== |
*Colour: Tuscan Red and Grey, Tuscan letters & numbers | *Colour: Tuscan Red and Grey, Tuscan letters & numbers | ||
*Dominion Atlantic | *Dominion Atlantic | ||
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</Gallery> | </Gallery> | ||
| − | ==1959 - 1965 (SW1200s)== | + | ====1959 - 1965 (SW1200s)==== |
*Colour: Tuscan Red and Grey, Tuscan letters & numbers in Block Roman | *Colour: Tuscan Red and Grey, Tuscan letters & numbers in Block Roman | ||
*Canadian Pacific | *Canadian Pacific | ||
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</Gallery> | </Gallery> | ||
| − | ==1965 - 1968 (SW1200s)== | + | ====1965 - 1968 (SW1200s)==== |
*Colour: Tuscan Red and Grey, Tuscan letters & numbers in Script Roman | *Colour: Tuscan Red and Grey, Tuscan letters & numbers in Script Roman | ||
*Canadian Pacific | *Canadian Pacific | ||
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</Gallery> | </Gallery> | ||
| − | ==1968 - 1994== | + | ====1968 - 1994==== |
*Colour: Action Red, Multimark, white letters & numbers | *Colour: Action Red, Multimark, white letters & numbers | ||
*CP Rail | *CP Rail | ||
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| − | ==Variations== | + | ===Variations=== |
Around World War One, some locomotives including [[DAR0032|No. 32]] were briefly painted black but soon returned to red. In the 1920s, some locomotives included [[DAR0025|No. 25]] and [[DAR0508|No. 508]] were painted "a very soft green" for a short time before being returned to red.(3) Many DAR locomotives arrived and began service on the DAR in lettered CPR and painted black until they were shopped in Kentville and given DAR livery. Some steam locomotives, especially in later years, were never repainted from their CP lettering colour scheme. | Around World War One, some locomotives including [[DAR0032|No. 32]] were briefly painted black but soon returned to red. In the 1920s, some locomotives included [[DAR0025|No. 25]] and [[DAR0508|No. 508]] were painted "a very soft green" for a short time before being returned to red.(3) Many DAR locomotives arrived and began service on the DAR in lettered CPR and painted black until they were shopped in Kentville and given DAR livery. Some steam locomotives, especially in later years, were never repainted from their CP lettering colour scheme. | ||
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| + | ==Passenger Car Colours== | ||
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| + | ===Models and Other Sources=== | ||
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| + | ===Colour Schemes by Period=== | ||
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| + | At this point there seems to be only two distinguishable periods in passenger car colours and those were the pre and post CPR colours. However, a lack of any truly authoritative colour reports or samples leaves both the pre and early post CPR schemes pretty well impossible to qualify. One could argue that indeed there were reports of the passenger cars being painted "magenta" but even at that, there was no color standard in the late 19th and early 20th century of note. Speculation even runs to the thought that maroon and magenta were essentially the same thing. What is more likely is that something in popular culture at that time was called the colour magenta and therefor anything close to that popular item would then receive the same name. With that, we shall then just concentrate on the colour photos we have that qualify passenger colours from 1949 onwards until such time as authoritative information is discovered. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 10:30, 6 April 2009
Dominion Atlantic Colours
Locomotive Colours
Models and Other Sources
No. 32 Model Colours
These are Averaged colours using PhotoShop taken from the main steam cyclinder on the model of No. 32 in the Wolfville library.
- RGB: 81, 18, 27
- HSB: 351, 78%, 32%
- Lab: 17, 20, 12
- CMYK: 41%, 89%, 72%, 62%
- #51121b
- Web Only: #660033
Model of No. 32 made in 1908, today displayed at the Wolfville Library located in the restored Wolfville Station.
Front end of the 1908 model of No. 32 displayed at the Wolfville Library located in the Wolfville Station.
Detail of the cylinder and name board of the 1908 model of No. 32 displayed at the Wolfville Library located in the Wolfville Station.
1920s era model of observation car Annapolis Royal at the restored Wolfville Station.
The sylized platform of the 1920s era model of Annapolis Royal at the restored Wolfville Station.
No. 537 Model Colours
Painted in the "c. 1936 - c. 1942" Scheme. Photo and model source unknown. Appears to be extremely accurate.
Colour Schemes by Period
1893 to c. 1902
- Colour: Magenta, gold lettering double pinstriping
- Colour Details: boilers, driving wheels, cab, tender - red; smoke box, tender wheels and trucks - black; Tires - white(1)
- Headlight: Usually DAR cypher initials
- Sanddome: Number
- Cab: Name, heavy Roman
- Tender: "Dominion Atlantic", arched in heavy Roman over "Railway"
c. 1903 to c. 1918
- Colour: Magenta, gold lettering and double striping
- Headlight: Often DAR cypher initials
- Sanddome: Double pinstriping, usually Number
- Cab: Name, heavy Roman
- Tender: "Dominion Atlantic" heavy Roman lettering in a straight line (2)
"Acadia" at Centreville.
No. 11 at the Digby Station at Digby
Kent, locomotive No. 26.
Locomotive No. 28, the Dominion Atlantic's only 2-6-0 Mogul.
Locomotive No. 31 at Canning Station with the Oyler apple warehouse under construction.
c. 1918 to c. 1928
- Colour: Tuscan Red, gold lettering
- Cab: Name, sometimes over small number, art deco sans-serif
- Tender: Small "Dominion Atlantic", large number art deco sans-serif
Angus Shops circa May 1924.
c. 1929 - 1935
- Colour: Tuscan Red, gold lettering and stripes
- Sanddome: Number, pinstriping
- Cab: Name, Roman
- Tender: Land of Evangeline herald, single pinstripe frame
c. 1936 - c. 1942
- Colour: Tuscan Red, gold or yellow lettering and stripes
- Tender: Land of Evangeline herald, single pinstripe frame
- Cab: Number with pinstripe frame
- Running Board: Name on cast brass plaque
- Smokebox Front: Silver (1938-1942)
"Much favourable comment has been made on the new color scheme recently adopted for the front end of locomotives. The old black color formerly in use has given way to a bright silver making the unit much more visible from a considerable distance and greatly adding the attractiveness of the engine."
- George Bishop "Railway Notes" Kentville Advertiser Oct. 27, 1938.
No. 26 "Kent" June 18, 1936 at Kentville
No. 32 freshly painted as Blomidon.
No. 552 Membertou with 1938 silver smokebox.
No. 1018 De Monts circa 1941 at Halifax in DAR livery.
c. 1943 - 1954
- Colour: Black, yellow lettering
- Cab: Number, pinstripe frame often omitted
- Tender: Land of Evangeline herald, single pinstripe frame usually omitted on ten wheelers but retained on Pacifics.
1956 - 1959 (S-3s)
- Colour: Tuscan Red and Grey, Tuscan letters & numbers
- Dominion Atlantic
S-3's No. 6560 & 6561 pulling plaster train near Windsor on August 28, 1956.
S-3's No. 6560 & 6561 pulling plaster train near Windsor on August 28, 1956.
1959 - 1965 (SW1200s)
- Colour: Tuscan Red and Grey, Tuscan letters & numbers in Block Roman
- Canadian Pacific
No. 8135 wayfreight waiting for empty plaster train to pass in Windsor in August 1959. Note boxcar No. 259118.
No. 8137 at Windsor on July 6, 1976.
1965 - 1968 (SW1200s)
- Colour: Tuscan Red and Grey, Tuscan letters & numbers in Script Roman
- Canadian Pacific
No. 8136 at the Kentville Car Shop circa 1972.
1968 - 1994
- Colour: Action Red, Multimark, white letters & numbers
- CP Rail
Variations
Around World War One, some locomotives including No. 32 were briefly painted black but soon returned to red. In the 1920s, some locomotives included No. 25 and No. 508 were painted "a very soft green" for a short time before being returned to red.(3) Many DAR locomotives arrived and began service on the DAR in lettered CPR and painted black until they were shopped in Kentville and given DAR livery. Some steam locomotives, especially in later years, were never repainted from their CP lettering colour scheme.
Passenger Car Colours
Models and Other Sources
Colour Schemes by Period
At this point there seems to be only two distinguishable periods in passenger car colours and those were the pre and post CPR colours. However, a lack of any truly authoritative colour reports or samples leaves both the pre and early post CPR schemes pretty well impossible to qualify. One could argue that indeed there were reports of the passenger cars being painted "magenta" but even at that, there was no color standard in the late 19th and early 20th century of note. Speculation even runs to the thought that maroon and magenta were essentially the same thing. What is more likely is that something in popular culture at that time was called the colour magenta and therefor anything close to that popular item would then receive the same name. With that, we shall then just concentrate on the colour photos we have that qualify passenger colours from 1949 onwards until such time as authoritative information is discovered.
References
- (1) Letter 1980 Harold Jenkins to Jim O'Donnell
- (2) Baldwin Locomotive Specificiations provided by Jim O'Donnell show tender lettering up to No.26 in 1901 was arch style but on No. 27 in 1903 it was straight line.
- (3) Letter 1980 Harold Jenkins to Jim O'Donnell
