Re: The Temple of Fashion in Central City, Colorado

Posted by Dave Eggleston on Oct 11, 2024; 2:40am
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/The-Temple-of-Fashion-in-Central-City-Colorado-tp20177p20200.html

No problem! The color translation from B&W photo question is a fundamental problem. Even for those modeling in the 30s I'd question the value of using color images to claim a color choice other than to understand how much variation existed across red cars on a high altitude broke railroad.  

I'm reading a book on weathering by Tim Shakleton, an English modeler and master of weathering, who quite wisely states that what we see in current restored engines (think Dan Markoff's Eureka) does not reflect the reality of objects used daily in the open--these restored relics are kept too clean. I'd argue the same for that billboard, it weathered at high altitude quite quickly and wasn't kept pristine.

BTW, that first photo is very, very early. Note that the Hawley building is not in it's expanded form, which if I remember, came in about 1880, adding a warehouse section to the left. Note the hay bale slide to the door in that picture. Hawley's both sold hay and had a stable in the bottom level. And after that business was expanded there was a door where that slide is and the roof remained flat for quite some years before getting the peaked roof we see now.

I just wish the photographers--even just one--had turned his camera to the left and gotten a panorama showing us the yards. It would answer a ton of questions and allow early-year nut cases such as myself able to confirm the layout.