[CBQ] Rare Chinese red box car

["Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>]

Hol Wagner spotted an interesting feature in a photo offered for sale on eBay at BURLINGTON ROUTE CB&Q 5632 Gold 1st time offer Dawn Yd RAILROAD TRAIN Photograph | eBay

The photo is taken at the Dawn Yard in North Kansas City in 1965 and shows 5632 painted gold to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the completion of Kansas City's Union Station. Alongside it, and flanked on the other side by an F-unit, is a Chinese red boxcar. What is unusual is that this is a single sheathed box car, presumed to be a CB&Q car and possibly an XM-27 or XM-28. Neither of us can remember seeing a single sheathed box car painted Chinese red.

There appears to be two “plates” affixed to the door of the box car. The top one looks about right for the Burlington Route herald while the lower one is deeper. Something relating to the Union Station celebrations? If this had been Havelock in 1957 or 1958, one could guess that the painting was an experiment in connection with the introduction of Chinese red.

Can anyone shed any light on this unusual scene? Does any recall any other Chinese red box cars of this type or other companies using a similar colour on freight cars in this time frame?

Hol has contacted the seller but he is unable to assist further as he was not the photographer and the quality of the photo was not very good.

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

 

 

 

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