My brother sent the title as a title to an email a few days ago along with his interpretation of Reading Pullman Green.

Well I have calmed down from my frustration of last week. Now I just want to know what color first generation road switchers are to be painted for 1952? Simple answer, Pullman Green. But what is Pullman Green? It seems everybody has a different idea of just what that is.

After finding out that the Scalecoat 1 Pullman Green is some strange form of crappy brown, I realized I will have to test some paints.I first went out to the LHS and picked up some Polyscale greens. Then I used the testing as an excuse to try Tru-Color Paint. I ordered it online from P&D Hobby Shop and it arrived yesterday during a thunder storm. The box was soaked, glad the decals that I ordered did not ship in that box.

Top Row Tru-Color paint, Bottom row left two Polyscale, right Scalecoat 1

The Tru-Color paint is nice. Their Pullman Green is much better than Scalecoat’s Pullman Brown, but to my eye it still does not look like what is on the locomotives. The Great Northern Empire Builder Green next to it looks better.

Well I thought about it and decided to open the scans up in Photoshop and let something other than my eye look at it.

PhotoShop says that the Tru-Color Pullman Green is the closest to the two scans. My eyes still do not believe it.

I have to paint something now to prove it to myself.