RE: [CBQ] Something Old 10

[HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.com>]

Rupert:
 
I've encountered conflicting reports, but it was sometime during the 1890s, 
although they already had many "Pullman" green cars  by the late 1890s.  I put 
"Pullman" in quotes because the olive green used by the Q for passenger 
equipment was most definitely not the same color used by Pullman for its fleet 
(which had switched from red to green in the 1880s).  The Q color had a good 
deal more brown in it and was lighter than Pullman's version.
 
Hol
 



To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: gamlenz@ihug.co.nz
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 21:49:38 +1300
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Something Old 10


  



Hol

When did the Burlington stop using yellow paint for passenger cars?

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "HOL WAGNER" <holpennywagner@msn.com>
To: "CB&Q Group" <cbq@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 7:44 AM
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Something Old 10

>
> In the 1950s and 1960s the Q's "Pullman" green heavyweight passenger cars 
> were generally referred to by employees as black cars, 
> so it's possible this is what color the B&SW cars really were. The Q was one 
> of the last two big roads to paitn its passenger 
> cars yellow; only the C&NW stuck with the color longer -- much longer, 
> actually.
>
> Hol
>
>




                                          

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