Since we are already talking about Skipgear printing the appropriate trucks for the B&O C-15 express car, this seems like a good point to ask if any of the wizards here can figure out the number on one of those cars with an undocumented paint job.
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The car is shown in this video clip from the early 1950s film, at 6:48 on the video counter (which is "TCR 04:40.37:08" on the film, apparently).
It is the single door express car with the arched roof, painted in the usual B&O passenger car colors of blue body with gray window stripe and thin gold stripe.
The interest is that all the available B&O records indicate that this type of car was only painted solid blue with a gold stripe - none with gray window area. You can see many others painted the expected way in this same video. B&O fans have been seeing this film for quite a while, but nobody has been able to get a read on that car number. It is the only known pictures of that car with that paint job. Since it is running in the time and place that I want to model, I would like to model it. But, what number to use? (I guess nobody could really prove me "wrong" so long as I chose a number within the proper range for all C-15 cars: 1500 through 1599, so we do know the first 2 digits.)
Anyway, I am wondering if anybody on here is able to do something like align individual frames and try to read the car number from a composite? Seems like a long shot (unless we have a modeler whose day job is with DARPA), but .... this is TRW.
