Those were the original colors. Most Coal burning main line engines burned coal, the dust and soot got everywhere and made it hard to keep them clean, so they were painted a utilitarian dull black. These little switchers were insulated steam bottles, (just loaded with asbestos), I expect every engine of their era would be nearly as garishly if the opportunity presented, (some of the painted Wood fired train engines were painted as true Victorians monstrosities).
David J Brooks wrote: > Well i prefer this one over the first, only because the colour scheme > seemed ab it over bearing, even for a train.:-) > > Dave > > On Jan 18, 2008 2:33 AM, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> OK so most people were underwhelmed by the little fireless steam >> switcher. So I decided to work with the problems in the image, and did >> a B&W conversion. I lightened the mid tones and emphasized the Red >> channel first then converted using a the red filter option, then hit the >> converted image with the slightest amount of Gaussian Blur to try to >> replicate the feel of a IR photo. I think it does kind of look like that. >> >> http://www.mindspring.com/~happydogsoftware/PESO%20--%20%203firelessb&w-ir.html >> >> Equipment as before. >> >> As usual comments are welcome but may be totally ignored. >> >> -- >> I am personally a member of the Cream of the Illuminati. >> A union with the Bavarian Illuminati is contemplated. >> When it is complete the Bavarian Cream Illuminati will rule the world >> -- Anonymous >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> >> > > > > -- I am personally a member of the Cream of the Illuminati. A union with the Bavarian Illuminati is contemplated. When it is complete the Bavarian Cream Illuminati will rule the world -- Anonymous -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
