RE: [CBQ] Date of Origin for Everywhere West and Way of the Zephyrs

["Nelson Moyer npmoyer@hotmail.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

 

 

I know of one exception to the ‘standard’ lettering scheme re Everywhere West and Way of the Zephyrs. CB&Q 70 Class HT-10 offset side triple hoppers had Everywhere West was painted on both sides. No Way of the Zephyr on these cars. As an aside, model importers have been known to get the lettering wrong, e.g. BLI’s latest issue of their NW-2 with Way of the Zephyrs painted on both sides.

 

Nelson Moyer

 

 

 

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Havelock builder's photos of the first car with the Everywhere West slogan and the last group without it, the latter built in 1936, the former in 1937.  I would agree with Rupert that the XM-30s and XM-31s probably had Everywhere West on both sides, primarily because the lettering standard once Way of the Zephyrs was added to the mix called for that slogan to appear on the left side of the car (meaning the B or brakewheel end was to the right), and the builder's photo of 26000 shows that side, with Everywhere West stenciled.  But -- and there's always a "but" -- note that the 1944 builder's photo of Pullman green, freight stenciled XM-32 express car 8200 shows the Everywhere West slogan on the car's right side.

 

Hol

 

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From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of 'Rupert & Maureen' gamlenz@ihug.co.nz [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 4, 2017 1:42 AM
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Subject: RE: [CBQ] Date of Origin for Everywhere West and Way of the Zephyrs

 

 

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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From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Saturday, 4 February 2017 11:53 a.m.
To: CB&amp;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.

 

Keith Erhart

 

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