US Diesels

Depending on what you are looking for i may be able to provide some help, or at least point you in the direction on information.

 

I would imagine that IHC just put Santa Fe paint on it because that was the body work they did up. They are notorious for putting every paint scheme under the sun on locomotives regardless of if the railway actually owned the type of locomotive or not or painted them in that scheme. Its a real problem IMHO in the North American model industry that the market is saturated with middling quality locomotives and rolling stock that lack details and are often in the wrong scheme/types that a railway never operated. In this case, its likely they did the tooling for high hood SD-24's, and just produced the model for every railway that owned the loco, whether high or low short nose versions in the one production run.

For the PRR, they do indeed call their Dark Green Brunswick Green, but its definitely not the same Brunswick Green that was used in the UK. I have never heard the PRR colour referred to as anything other than "PRR Brunswick Green", so i can't offer much help on that aside to say if you are painting a PRR locomotive, any UK Brunswick Green would be the wrong shade.

 

For the PRR, the Cambrian Railways used a very similar almost black green colour. There may be a sombody that can supply that to you

 

If i thought it would get through customs, i would mail you some Floquil Brunswick Green, but they can't even ship into Canada for the retailers anymore because of changes to labelling laws, i have no idea what kind of can of worms we would open up if i tried to mail a couple of jars to the UK!!!

Floquil Brunswick Green
http://www.testors.com/products/133611

Note its almost Black, you could take a semi-gloss black and mix with a dark green (maybe even the UK Brunswick) to get a custom colour for you.