[CBQ] Freight Car Rosters

[John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>]

Mark has opened an interesting thread with freight car questions.   I looked
tonight at my copy of BB #7, XM-32 Steel Boxcars, which says that as the
first XM-32 boxcars were produced in Havelock in Nov-Dec 1940, they were
lettered with the new "Everywhere West" and "Way of the Zephyrs" slogans in
script on the sides of the cars.   It also says that EW was painted on the
right side and WZ on the left side, looking ahead from the B or rear end.
I realize there were exceptions to everything, but was this policy on the Q
script slogans used on all types of freight cars?   Were the cars
consistently painted with EW on the right and WZ on the left from the B end
throughout the Q use of the script slogans, which I believe would be until
changeover to Chinese red after 1958.
- John Manion
  Denver, CO


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