On Mon, 05 Mar 2001 17:35:18 -0000 haywarb@b... writes:
> The color name "Chinese red" is interesting for the 1958-59 period
> during which it was rolled out since the US was deep into the Cold
> War
> mentality. One popular phrase among the hawks was "better dead
> than
> red". I'm glad they stuck to the Chinese red description, rather
> than change it for political correctness. Like all of us BRHS
> members, I think the Q's Chinese red is a fine color.
>
Well, please don't speak for "_all_ of us"! I'll grant that the Q may
have needed an image makeover in the late 1950's, but I was perfectly
happy with Grey, Black, and Boxcar Red on freight trains, thank you very
much. ;) I was really disappointed when the Q went to the Chinese Red
with billboard "Burlington" (upper-and-lower-case lettering, too
--ugghh!). Even at age 10, I was a curmudgeon! ;)
Cheers,
--JoeA.
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