MT has now released one of their sleepers and the parlor car in Union Pacific Yellow and Gray colors. Not badly done,the yeallow looks right on to me,red lettering with correct black outline. Now for my two complains. Their shade of gray is a bit light,I can live with this as the gray color on UP car roofs tended to weather and faid looking more silver with time.The almost black looking gray used by Life Like on their early diesels was worse, finally they got this right on current E-8 runs. Back to my review. The trucks are a molded silver gray plastic. When the road first began to repaint heavyweight cars into the yellow scheme trucks on passenger cars and locos were still gray. I would have preferred this,shortly after repainting of cars started the road switched to silver for car trucks then locomotives.The best way to simulate this on a model would be hand painted silver or aluminum even Kato's molded in silver gray trucks do not look exactally right to me. There were still cars in two tone gray and a few green with black roof Harriman cars during the era represented by the MT cars. Nate Goodman (Nato).
