Does anyone know what color the XM-3A Boxcars (47100-47499) built in
1963 were painted? The picture in Spoor's Freight Car COlor guide
looks like the car might have been a brown (mineral red?) color, but
the car is badly weathered. The original run XM-3 pictured at the top
of the same page as the XM-3A was definitely chinese red, but I can't
tell for the XM-3A in the bottom photo. It also appears that some
other late model boxcars such as the XM-4's 47790-47999 and XM-4B
boxcars 49000-49399 might also have been painted a brown color.
Anyone know anything about these as well?
Tom Mack
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