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The proper term is "company service" because many orange boxcars were used by the Stores Department, so they had little or nothing to do with M of W. From: "jonathanharris@earthlink.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 7:05 PM Subject: Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Standard 40ft box cars Yes, my guess would be that if you saw an orange CB&Q 40' boxcar, it was in MOW service. jonathan ======== ---In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, <richtownsend@...> wrote : For a time orange was used on MOW equipment. Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, Oregon --------------------- I know that the standard Q 40ft box cars were painted in Chinese Red or such, however, were any of these cars painted in ORANGE ?? I know a couple of later way cars were painted orange but quickly painted ?silver? Noel __._,_.___ Posted by: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com> __,_._,___ |