British-American Tank Cars colors

[sailormatlac]

Hi, I'm actually thinking about modelling a few BAOX tank cars for the layout. Most went to CGTX when B-A went down and kept their paint scheme. A few lasted well into the 80s.

I'm using the Black Cat set. They say the top half of the tank should be painted dark green "from color photo evidences". Well. I did my homework, found a few not so neat 1950s color pictures of BAOX tank cars and it looks plain black to me (even the car with the light color middle stripe). Anybody here have more factual information about old BAOX cars? Also, Black Cat say the light color stripe is yellow-orange, but it's hard to tell. It looks more like a creamy yellow.

Here's the best picture out there I could find. No trace of dark green on the tank.



This one is B&W, but there's no color differenciation between top and bottom.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=im...1448956184

Matt