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Re: [CBQ] Dark Grey Pullmans

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Dark Grey Pullmans
From: Bob Webber <rgz17@comcast.net>
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:19:49 -0600
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Rupert,
Pullman had 3 standard colors during the steel era - green, two tone 
grey and dark grey (the latter being less common by far).

Most railroads that owned ex Pullman owned cars after the divestiture 
merely leased them right back to Pullman, and it was difficult to 
determine who really owned them merely by looking at them.   On the 
other hand, some cars looked exactly like the other of the car in 
that road's home fleet.  It really depended upon the assignment and 
service that the car was intended to support.  For instance, the 14 
section cars that the Burlington picked up, didn't get painted in the 
Pullman colors, but instead were green with BURLINGTON on the letterboard.

Pullman also had a large amount of "special schemes" that were a 
fairly small percentage of the total cars before 1941 and a larger 
percentage after divestiture and when the cars so painted were mostly 
leased back to Pullman.  So you did see aluminum painted, shadow 
lined, grey painted, etc. cars still with the Pullman letterboard, 
often with the owning roads reporting marks on the corners.

At 01:18 AM 3/8/2008, Rupert & Maureen wrote:
>Bob
>
>Thanks for that clarification about the grey colour.  I had previously
>assumed that any ex-Pullmans owned by the Q that had black signage on a
>light background had been painted by the Q as  imitation stainless steel,
>and recorded them as such, not realising that Pullman also used grey as
>opposed to greeen.
>
>Rupert
>Auckland NZ
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bob Webber" <rgz17@comcast.net>
>To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
>Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 4:29 AM
>Subject: Re: [CBQ] Dark Grey Pullmans
>
>
> > Rupert, my mistake, that should have been "Dark Grey".   Having been
> > washed in "Brunswick Green", when I think "dark" I think...well.
> > DAAARKKKKK.   That's my excuse and I'm sticking by it.
> >
>
>
>
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>

Bob Webber 



 
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