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From: "Cynthia & Duncan Cameron" <d.cameron@s...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Q - Stewert 70 ton hoppers
> I happen to have a bunch of these cars -- six in mineral red and four in
> chinese red (one of which is lettered for the C&S). As far as I know, the
> cars themselves are very close to the Q cars. Certainly close enough that
I
> can't see any differences in photographs. The numbers appear to be
accurate
> as well. The one flaw is that, at least on the mineral red cars, they
made
> a mistake with the slogans. If one is looking at the brake wheel end of
> most Q cars, the car would have Way of the Zephyrs on the left hand side
and
> Everywhere West on the right. It struck me as strange, when I got these
> cars, that Stewart had reversed them, and I wondered why. It turns out
that
> these cars acutally had Everywhere West painted on both sides of the car.
> My guess is that Stewart, going from perhaps a single photo, assumed that
> Way of the Zephyrs must be on the flip-side, since the only slogan visible
> was the Everywhere West.
Probably.
To the best of my knowledge, the only cars to carry the script "Way of the
Zephyrs" as a slogan were the XM-32 SD 40' steel boxcars, the XM-33 SD 50'
steel boxcars, the 50' DD auto cars and the steel reefers.
Any others?
Marshall
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