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
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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.