The Newberry Library has a collection of material from the CB&Q PR
Dept offices. In the boxes there are a number of pictures of the
experimental paint scheme cars as you described them. One or two of
the cars were lettered for "Suburbanaire Service" a moniker that
never caught on in the "Land of the Burlingtons".
The IC also went through a similar program, probably at roughly the
same time, but never adopted any of their schemes. The Q did use a
version of the experimental schemes on all their cars.
Charlie Vlk
PS- While on the subject of Commuter Cars, it may be an Urban
Legend, but I heard at one of the BRHS meets that the reason the all-
steel commuter cars were the length they were was that an official
stopped a program to stretch and rebuild old wood cars because the
costs were too high. They had a supply of completed steel
underframes for the program that had to be used, so.......
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