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I’ve been seeing them occasionally on eBay. I haven’t tried to track how many of them actually got repainted, but since there are also a number of photos of them un-repainted but with the new numbers, that suggests that not all of them were.
Pure speculation on my part, but I suspect that, in the first couple of years after 1961 when the repaint program started, the passenger locomotive and car repainting may have moved fairly quickly, more so than that of repainting freight locomotives. Of course, at the same time, John German was trying to get rid of the non-EMD power so it’s hard to tell at this stage which program was moving faster. The fact that MP actually bought an E-8 along with the B&M lightweight passenger cars probably says something about this.
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