[CBQ] CB&Q Maintenance Equipment Colors

["Kenneth Middleton" <krmiddle@charter.net>]

I've recently been reading a copy of John Strauss's Burlington Route Passenger 
Trains - Volume One, and noticed an interesting photo on page 135 of the book. 
The photo shows Train No. 4 with Hudson 3004 as the primary subject, but in the 
background are a number of CB&Q maintenance cars in a dark paint with white (or 
at least light) lettering. 

By the time I could drive and really start looking at Burlington equipment (the 
1960s), Burlngton maintenance equipment (at least the house cars and 
ex-passenger cars) was orange with black lettering. Does anyone know when they 
switched to orange, and what the colors were before that?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Ken Middleton
Portage, MI
krmiddle@charter.net