That's actually a strip of reflective white Scotchlite and was placed on waycars that operated in Colorado and thus were equipped with batteries inside the car for the state-required electric marker lamps. Hol
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 17:57:27 -0400 Subject: Re: [CBQ] CB&Q Waycar Questions
March 19, 2015
Hol and Group - The yellow paint slash under the way car number indicates a
Lines West assigned car, correct? Best Regards - Louis
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL
In a message dated 3/19/2015 4:39:44 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:
[Attachment(s) from Hol Wagner
included below]
Rupert: I have an original of the Corbin slide
(he shot half a dozen or more and traded the extras), taken on May 30, 1959,
and I've attached a scan. I recall he did say that another was painted
at the same time, and obviously it was the 13966, coupled to the 14151.
He also noted that they made a mistake in painting the stove exhaust stacks
red and that they were soon repainted with high temperature resistant aluminum
paint. The "paint shop" at Lincoln, as at most other locations at the
time, was simply a spot on the rip track, and cars were repainted out in the
open. Havelock did, of course, have an inside paint shop, but simple
repaints were done on rip tracks all across the
system. Hol
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015
06:22:10 +1300 Subject: RE: [CBQ] CB&Q Waycar Questions
Hol
The photo
was on eBay and shows 14151 coupled to another newly painted car which I think
is 13366, suggesting that they have both just left the paint
shop.
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ
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Sent: 20 March 2015 00:55
To: CB&Q Group
Subject: RE: [CBQ] CB&Q Waycar
Questions
Ken, Rupert and
all:
Corbin told me the 14151 was supposedly the first waycar to
have been repainted Chinese red.
Hol
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From:
CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 19:04:19 +1300
Subject: RE:
[CBQ] CB&Q Waycar Questions
Ken
I don’t
have anything specific about the change to Chinese red for way cars, but
plenty has been said in the past about the use of that paint during 1958 and
none of it related to waycars. It could be, of course, that no-one has asked
the question before!
The earliest Chinese red photo I’ve found is of
14151 looking very newly painted in 1959.
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland
NZ
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Sent: 18 March 2015 06:47
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [CBQ] CB&Q Waycar
Questions
I have been studying Randall
Danniel's books on CB&Q waycars (especially the 28-foot and 30-foot wooden
cars) in hopes of building some models, but have come up with a few questions
that I cannot answer totally from the books:
Did the waycar paint scheme
shift from mineral red to Chinese red about 1958, in about the same time frame
as freight cars? Is that the same time the lettering style changed from
Railroad Roman to the more Gothic style?
It looks to me like the more
common herald was the rectangle without the black background, but some heralds
seem to have a black background. Was this something that was changed at a
particular time, or was this at the whim of the paint
shops?
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