There are lots of old photos showing spindly steel bridges crossing valleys. Those photos are all in B&W format or Sepia Tone.  My question is the color painted on the steel to protect it?  Is there any documentation as to what color these bridges were painted in the turn of the century to the 1930s? I like the bright silver we see in today's color photos, but I'm not sure that was used back then.

Thanks!

Den

Good Day Team,

A bit of my current layout. 

20x50  garage (3 Car garage)

3 Level layout having 1.5% grades to reach each level.

5 DCC district (5 Yards)

10 DC Districts (used to operate long distance consists)

2 Main lines running between destinations (multiple sidings)

About 80% of my engines run on DC. (hence the large amount of DC districts)  The last 20% are fully DCC with some sound.

When desiged my layout, I wanted following achieved.

OK this is my first time to blog, so bear with me. The building I have attached pictures of started out as a Walthers Golden Valley Canning Co. kit. After I built it I completely repainted and weathered it and mounted it on apiece of .060 styrene to keep it all together. I hand painted various bricks to make the building look more realistic. The roof top air conditioner and support platform were scratch built, painted and again weathered. I added additional detail items, people etc, also added scenery around the whole building.