Of course, I had to try it. Probably should've taken some red out of the photo, however. There's always a chance I'm off on the truck color also. I'll label this one inconclusive for now and get back to it later. We're definitely somewhere close, though.

Oh, and BTW, did I mention these burgundies are pretty brutal?... LOL

Now I'm not exactly sure what this is a picture of whether it's a model, CGI, etc., but this one looks a lot like the GMC Mahogany Brown so that color's not off the table yet, either... LOL

Then there's the American Models' K4's but I believe the Chevy Truck Coppertone would be too light...

Here are the two Cornell-type carnelian reds off the Martin-Senour charts. While I'm at it, I might as well try to drive you Lehigh Valley folks nuts as well.

Perhaps a carnelian crystal may help...

https://www.energymuse.com/carnelian-meaning

LOL

Anyway, score one for Geep!!! DuPont 93-5248 Yellow is indeed Lemon Yellow or even Chrome Yellow Lt. if you prefer... LOL

International Yellow looks like a slightly blackened Diamond Yellow while the newer and slightly darker International Apache Yellow falls closer to Armour Yellow...

I'm leaning toward the Apache Yellow at the moment as Aspen Gold but of course, that's very, very preliminary. LOL From now on, I'll be considering Grande Gold to be the DRGW's second postwar yellow as it applies to the Reading and Venetian Yellow. The first was an ochre-based Imitation Gold like 95-014. The later oranges were darker yellows closer to what we see on the Maine Central.

https://www.rgmhs.org/data/reference/paint.html

I'll find better pics for comparison later but here's a quickie with all manipulated photos...

Here's the scan of International Apache Yellow from the 1954 DuPont chip book with the usual associated plate and code numbers...

This International original Apache Yellow survivor truck is such a great alternative example I'll post the link to it so everyone can check the whole thing out...

http://findclassicars.com/international ... ginal.html

The older International Yellow isn't in the 1954 DuPont catalog but I now know for certain neither color is a Reading yellow.

Considering Venetian Yellow as Grande Gold should pretty much clear up everything concerned about Harry's Trainmaster #801 and the Reading's final paint job on the FP-7's so I feel I'm good there...

The Reading's white was probably the cleanest DuPont had commonly available and I know that's the correct brown just by looking at it since there was one of those wooden tongue-and-groove phone boxes at one of the grade crossings I used to hang around at. LOL

I came up with this one just a couple of minutes ago. It looks like I may have found a use for the Chevy Truck Coppertone but it's not on the Pennsy... LOL

Here's the old turn-of-the-last-century Harpel shot of the tri-colored Annville station with the reddish color around the bottom along with the stripe on the chimney. Although his thread is supposed to be dealing with postwar paints, I'm just wondering how far back some of them go since the Reading seemed to be quite set in tradition when it came to their colors, at least up until the F-units started appearing on the railroad, that is...

This is a different, more richly-colored download of the postcard I put up earlier. You can tell it's a slightly later depiction of the station by how much the American Elm tree planted next to it has grown. The building is now completely brown around the bottom but it's hard to determine whether the rest is white or yellow although it looks more like the yellow in the other version. The roof is definitely a reddish color and the chimney almost appears as though the paint is beginning to flake off...

Wow, I may be way out on a diseased limb on this one but this is just too flippy what happens when I upsaturate the Coppertone chip... LOL