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January 20, 2016 at 7:04 am #5684benjamintickell53Participant
This photo shows train 22 (the Sunshine Special) at Longview in December 1947. A number of cars, including head-end cars, are painted in Eagle colors although the entire train appears to be heavyweight equipment. (The Texas Eagle would not be inaugurated for another 8+ months.) When did MP begin painting heavyweight cars in Eagle colors (excluding the few HW coaches modified for the Missouri River Eagle during WW II)?
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January 20, 2016 at 4:40 pm #7743kenrisParticipantI would think a painting diagram would answer that question, Bill. Have any been published in the Eagle?
January 21, 2016 at 11:59 pm #7746peggyrothschildParticipantBill
The Mopac shopped four heavyweight coaches in 1942 or 43 and ‘Eagle-ized’ them with skirting and Thermo-pane windows. They were unique as they only had one vestibule the other end of the car was modified with larger restrooms/lounges so
you’ d have to say these would be the earliest. The roof also wasn’t modified as the other heavyweights were when they were modernized. My passenger car diagrams are in the archives so David would have to dig them out for car numbers. Due to the war I’d say these four were it under after August 1945. John Harper has the 4″ x 5″ maintenance cards on the passenger car fleet so you’d have to ask him if he could come up with a time-frame on when the shops really started the repainting program full bore.I know to a few of the repaints received black roofs instead of the familiar roof gray color. I’ve seen a HW Pullman and HW 22 window coach at least in Eagle colors with black roofs.
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