Mark,
1937 - "Everywhere West" and "Way of the Zephyrs" added, one slogan to one side
of the car.
1966 - Slogans on the hoppers were dropped.
According to diagrams I have the slogans were in the center of the car. I have
not found any informationon on which specific side a particular slogan was used.
The Burlington Route Historical Society had their entire newsletter (No. 20)
devoted to covered hoppers, by Wagner. Many photos were in color. The first
covered hoppers built in 1940 were in mineral red, with white lettering and a
white-on-black herald.
In 1958, with the change to the large "Burlington," there was a variety of
covered hopper schemes. In September/October of that year, the body of the
ACF-twin type cars was mineral red (not Chinese red) with white lettering. The
herald was just white on the body color. For the next 250 cars in October, a
full-color (white on black with a caboose red border) Scotchlite herald was
used, on a letterboard between a pair of ribs, and the trucks were painted
black. An experimental scheme at that time, very limited in number, was a black
body and smaller full-color Scotchlite herald. (Black was also applied to 15
70-ton PS-2's in 1965.) Finally, these cars went to gray with red lettering in
1961, even though that had been used on the other covered hoppers since 1958.
Rich Christie
--- On Thu, 12/2/10, Mark <markg99051@aol.com> wrote:
From: Mark <markg99051@aol.com>
Subject: [CBQ] Question Regarding PS-2 Covered Hoppers
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, December 2, 2010, 6:29 PM
I just picked up some of the new N-Scale Athearn PS-2 2,983 cf covered hoppers
(I had ordered these so long ago that I actually forgot about them, but my
local hobby store called today and said they were in).
Anyway, they are in the mineral red paint scheme and look pretty close to an
unweathered version of the hopper shown on page 20 of Burlington Bulletin #20.
Hol Wagner's excellent article says they were delivered in 1954 with the
"Everywhere West" and "Way of the Zephyrs" slogans. Slogans aren't on the
Athearn cars. Being an n-scaler, I don't get too obsessive about being
perfectly prototypical, but when it's a simple modification like adding a
couple decals, I'll consider it.
My question -- I model prior to 1960. Would these cars have definitely had the
slogans on them for the remainder of the 50s? Any suggestions of just where the
slogans should be placed (exact center of cars?)Also, any idea if they would
have used the hyphenated "Every-where?" Finally, which side of the car should
"Everywhere West" go on and which side should have "Way of the Zephyrs."
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