Keith
The only photos I have of XM-30 and XM-31’s (which were built 1937
onwards) show them with an Everywhere West slogan on the left side (but I haven’t
found a photo of the other side). This is not the diagonal style used on the XM-32’s,
which were built from 1940 onwards, but a more horizontal design. Given their
construction date, it seems unlikely that the “horizontal” slogans
would have been added during a repaint prior to the diagonal style being
adopted. In Data Sheet on XM-25 / XM-26 cars, there are photos of both the left
and right sides of cars with diagonal EW slogans, with a comment that they were
repainted in the post-1937 style.
Based on this, I think the XM-30’s would have been the first to carry the
EW slogan (possibly on both sides) and the XM-32 the first to sport the two
slogans.
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ
From:
CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Saturday, 4 February 2017
11:53 a.m.
To: CB&Q Group
Subject: [CBQ] Date of Origin for
Everywhere West and Way of the Zephyrs
Can
someone tell me when the Burlington
started using the Everywhere West and Way of the Zephyrs slogans on their
freight cars? Once they were both adopted, did they always use Everywhere
West on one side and Way of the Zephyrs on the other? Thank you.