Ken, Mike and Todd,
Thanks for the info and photos.
So it looks as if the St. Charles coaches (70-73) had a darker interior wood finish, more of a medium brown, as opposed to the finished oak in AC&F cars (74-76).
Mike is right about finding paints. When Testors acquired the Floquil, Polyscale and Model Master paint lines, they subsequently dropped all three paint lines. Don't know if that was before or after Testors was acquired by Rustolium.
Mike said in a prior post that he used Model Master "Afrika Mustard" for the interior of his coaches to resemble finished oak. I've yet to find that color available, as well as Model Master "Dark Green". I have a line on a possible new source for those colors in an enamel, placed an order, will report back when they arrive.
Change of plans (hence the change in thread title).
I was studying this favorite mid-1920s photo of the Leadville passenger at Dillon:
![](http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/file/n18771/Dillon_1924.jpg)
Under enlargement, I was able to count the clerestory windows on the 2 door express car, 13 by my count, identifying it as C&S number 1. I then noticed that the following coach had 6 paired roof vents, arranged perpendicular to the roof center line, identifying it as a St. Charles coach. The roof overhang over the platforms doesn't seem to droop down as on all the other coaches 71-76. So, I think this is coach number 70, paired with number 1.
I don't recall ever seeing a photo of coach 70 in actual use in a C&S train, only preservation photos at Idaho Springs.
So, my OMI coach 70 is being reassigned to my 1924 consist. One of my OMI coach 74-76 models will be painted and lettered for my 1909 consist instead.
Jim Courtney
Poulsbo, WA