tried a search and could not find anything. Just wondering what colour the French used for their narrow gauge trains near the front. I am currently designing some 3D printed narrow gauge railway models in 1/35 scale. Fairly happy with British colours, suspect French will probably be similar.
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I know nothing about trains but I would have thought French narrow gauge trains would have been painted "gris artillerie" or "vert olive".
I found an autochrome of a French Baldwin narrow gauge loco (attached) - the colours in autochromes are a bit tricky but the loco does look
like it's painted a dark grey colour.
Here's a colour chart of French railway colours - gris artillerie makes an appearance - http://www.3dtrains.com/guides/msts_colors/railroad_colors_fr_index.shtml
The railway colours used by the French in the Great War have been researched by Jeroen and has the details on his blog.If you send me an email then I could send you a link.
There seems to have been 2 colours used a light "horizon blue" and a green colour as used on the tanks.
thanks for that. A blue-ish grey makes sence. the colour 'paintings' in book suggest that colour. Probably also some painted 'camouflage' colours as I have seen something like that on a French WW1 standard gauge Crochat petrol shunting loco.
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