Tom,
>From an old mans memory I'd have to say that all those groups
were painted Chinese Red when built.
BTW, those nifty looking grain doors turned out to be nothing but
trouble and by the mid 70's were all welded shut. Why?
For one, there was very little demand. Destination elevators did
not like plug door cars anyway and if they used a car dumper they
would not fit.
For two, those doors came unlatched easily and they would swing
in the breeze.
La Crosse Milling had one customer that those cars were suited for,
(mixed bag and bulk), and every integral grain door car that I got
I checked so that I could squirrel it away but I never found one.
Russ
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From: "thommack" <mack@c...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, 12 September, 2002 09:04
Subject: [BRHSlist] XM-3A Boxcars
> 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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