Marshall,
While I was Agent for BRE at Burlington and climbed all over all types of
RS, RSM & RSB cars I never saw a number on the roof.
Lenny
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From: "marshall" <zephyr03@s...>
To: <BRHSlist@egroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 7:34 PM
Subject: [BRHSlist] A couple of questions -
> Hi, group -
>
> While procrastinating my way through a lazy Sunday afternoon by perusing
> back issues of the BB, I ran into a couple of puzzlers. Can anyone help
> unravel????
>
> In BB#33 (Hudsons), the photo at the bottom of p. 73 is captioned in
> part: "The mineral red color of the cab roof is quite evident". Well,
> it *does* look that way, as well as one can judge from a B&W pic - but
> the photo is dated 9/17/1941. I had been led to believe (and believe
> there was an onlist discussion a year or so back) that the red cab roofs
> did not come into currency until after the war (1947 runs in mind). Can
> anyone lay this question to rest for once and all???? (A dated painting
> order or diagram would be ideal, but I'll take what I can get!)
>
> . . . and in BB#12 (BREX), I thumbed & scanned in vain to find either a
> photo or text mention which would confirm or deny whether BREX ice
> reefers carried car numbers on the roofs, as many ice reefers did in
> those days. Does anyone know?
>
> Please help!!!!
>
> Marshall
>
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