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Rupert,
This is an interesting photo but I think the location is wrong.
I've now lived in the Kansas City area for over 40 years and have
never heard of a "Dawn" yard on the CB&Q, BN, or BNSF. I
believe this is Murray Yard in North Kansas City. The amount of
motive power in the vicinity would strongly suggest this. The
roundhouse would be off the lower right based on aerial photos I
have. If you look close you can see the light towers that had
rotary beacons as a hazard warning for aircraft landing at nearby
Kansas City Municipal Airport. In the far haze appears to be the
large Kansas Flour Mill complex which was a big CB&Q customer.
The Missouri River is to the left or west.
Bill Hirt
On 2/21/2021 10:02 PM, Rupert Gamlen
wrote:
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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