The result is bad roof leaks - a problem we are fighting currently at the wide-gauge East Broad Top. The car begins to flex during movement as it loosens with age. Tin roofs hold up better on a building than on a car. Note that the roof on that building is 97 years old and has been painted a few times. See recent photos of the Strong creamery for a good example of this phenomenon. When the tin plating wore off, the underlying steel would rust. The metal panels were probably not pure tin, but “terne” plate which is tin-plated steel. The porch roofs on my 1932 house are done the same way and the seams are still as tight as the seams in a tin can. Finally a bead of solder is run into the seam. The next piece is applied over the nails and then the lip of the first piece is bent over the seam, covering the nails. The pieces have a lip on one side and the top. This is a testament to both the longevity of the material and the reason why it was chosen over other roofing materials in the first place. The bottom line is that all of the surviving equipment (that wasn’t Edavillized or covered with asphalt roofing material at Phillips) still have their original tin roofs. Some have tried to argue/”speculate”/justify whatever… that equipment had “tarpaper” or some other treatment. The tin roof its use on the prototype rail vehicles.ĭon’t run for the hills… the vast majority of Maine two-foot equipment had tin roofs. The tin roof its use on the prototype rail vehicles, structures and the tin materials. Prototype Paint Schemes, selection by road name and vehicle type presented on the Yahoo! groups. Prototype “red lead” and Maine Two Foot “boxcar red”.Ĭommercial paints available in the Maine Two Foot era Modelling tin roofs, a selection of modellers methods from the Yahoo! groups. The tin roof: its use on prototype rail vehicles, structures and the tin materials. Wet, raw wood weathered with raised grain is much safer for a brakeman to walk on… especially when a train is in motion. Painted wood and rain lead to slippery conditions. Roof walk boards were normally left unpainted. Click here to view on another page.īy the end of operations, the tin roofs on Maine two-foot freight cars were a dark brown rust color because… their red lead paint jobs were not maintained and the tin rusted! Chris McChesney G Kohler 12/12/12 MaineOn2ġ5-12-2016: Check out David Keith’s posting “Search for SR&RL freight car red” using currently available (in the USA) paints. The closest out of the bottle color I have found is ATSF Mineral Brown. SR&RL “Freight Car Red” – This red is not like Floquil’s “Boxcar Red”, which is way too brown and is a match for D&RGW’s boxcar red. I use Floquil’s “Oxide Red” for roofs, sometimes cut with white for older cars. This red is not like Floquil’s “Boxcar Red”. Red Lead is similar to the SR&RL “Freight Car Red” but is absolutely flat. When mixed as a paint locally, various correspondents have indicated that colour can appear as anything from orange through to brown, and it has been described as “fugitive” ie rapidly changing. Red lead is the common name for the mixed oxide of lead (Pb 3O 4) which in its pure state is a bright almost virulent orange colour. Standard practice was to coat the tin seamed roof with a preparation referred to as “red lead”, and this preparation was most likely mixed up on site from a paint base (boiled linseed oil?), binders and pigment (the red lead itself). G Kohler HOn30 responseĭon’t run for the hills… the point is that the vast majority of Maine two-foot equipment had tin roofs. There is a misconception that canvas or tarpaper was used. With only a few exceptions, all Maine Two Foot equipment freight, passenger, and locomotives were roofed with tin sheeting. Tin roofs and colour schemes, edit date: 04-06-2015 Grantham 1, updated 13-11-2015.Īs this is a long post, we present some of the key points that will be expanded further in the post.
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