There's a full article on "simulated fluting" (often referred to as
"shadow-lining") in Burlington Bulletin #15. The Burlington was not the
first to employ it - the Santa Fe was using it in 1947 - but probably used
it more extensively than any other steam road. The reason was to supplement
the lightweight car fleet utilising old cars painted to look like
lightweights (or to look less like heavyweights).
Amongst the first cars so painted were the rebuilt suburban service
coach-power cars #7300-7313 in 1950. In addition, RPO's, baggage-RPO's,
diners, Pullmans, office cars, and coaches were painted with this scheme,
together with C&S and FW&D chair cars - a total of at least 60 cars. By the
late 1950's, it was decided to discontinue the practice as it was costly to
apply (very labour intensive) and didn't weather very well, especially with
the effect of the car washers, and many of the cars were then painted with
"plain" aluminum paint.
The latest shadow lined car photo I've come across is of sleeper (ex crew
dorm) #657 (ex Clover Camp) stored at Chicago in 1963.
Hope this helps
Rupert
----- Original Message -----
From: "jobbox123" <jobbox123@yahoo.com>
To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:30 AM
Subject: [CBQ] CB&Q Passenger Car Paint Schemes
> Two Questions:
>
> During which time period did the Q employ the simulated fluting
> scheme on its smooth side cars ? Were these experimental schemes on
> just a few cars or was there a period in which it was the defacto
> standard ?
>
> When did the Q adopt the all silver paint schemes on its streamline
> cars ? The examples I am thinking of here are the havelock baggage
> and ex-C&NW coaches.
>
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