611-613 Cab Interior

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Joseph:

Without any experience in the matter, I speculate that very fine silk cloth might come closest in texture.  My mother seems frequently to be able to find "pre-owned" silk scarves at near give-away prices at "turn-around" shops-- and I have seen examples of raw silk and silk dyed in colors that might reasonably represent sun-aged canvas.

I have never tried to bleach dyed silk, and don't know whether clorox or oxy-clean could eliminate dyes without attacking the silk itself.  Immersing silk cloth in normal tap-water leaves "water marks" that might or might not look like inadvertent staining that cab curtains underwent in normal use.

If you can find a silk scarf and get the color you want (by whatever means), you will have enough material to do several dozens of O-scale model curtains.  But I'm not sure how you would get the material to "drape" convincingly.  

-Eric Bott

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Subject: Re: 611-613 Cab Interior

Thank you Ken,
I'm detailing an N&W J in O scale and was wondering what would be a good material for the cab curtains.

Very Respectfully,
Joseph Congemi

> On Jun 19, 2016, at 09:17, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
> 
> The cabs on all N&W steam were green. The wood was installed on 611 at Birmingham in 1982, I was surprised when I first saw it on the test run in August of that year. 
> 
> The cab curtains were canvas and natural canvas color, but usually had gotten fairly dirty with soot and cinders in a short time.
> 
> Ken Miller
> 
>> On Jun 18, 2016, at 9:21 PM, NW Modeling List wrote:
>> 
>> Good evening all,
>> I know the walls of the cab interiors of the J Class were painted green, but were they ever sheathed in wood as delivered or is that solely for 611 during her excursion career? Also, what color were the cab curtains?
>> 
>> Very Respectfully,
>> Joseph Congemi
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