Chris
Comparing your door with photos in
Mike Spoor's CB&Q Color Guide", it appears to be identical with those
fitted to at least the XM-26's #16500-16999, built by Pullman in 1926.
C&S also had some #13500-13999. At least some of the XM-25's also had
these doors.
The doors on the XM-28's built at Galesburg do not
appear to have had the same horizontal bar across the middle of the
door.
Your door was painted mineral/box car red. Chinese red was
more like carmine, and that paint scheme didn't appear
until 1958.
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ
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Subject: [CBQ] ntique full-scale CB&Q
boxcar doors [1 Attachment]
Hello, I am with an architectural salvage company and we
have come across 3 antique wooden boxcar doors. They are a darker red and say
"Everywhere West" in white. (photo is attached).
These are the wooden-slat
exterior sliding boxcar doors, and I am starting to think they came off of an
XM28 model car. I believe the are similar to the era of this CB&Q 1920s
boxcar photo here *the photo is also pasted into the email
below for comparison). Do you have any info on the
era/age such wooden doors would have been used--with that slogan? I am trying
to circa date the doors within a decade or so. Is that color what they called
"Chinese Red?"
More importantly--do you have
any clue to the value of such a thing? Or do you have any advice on resources
where we could establish a value range for antique wooden boxcar doors?
Any help is appreciated as
this is outside the scope of our expertise.
thanks,
Chris Presley
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