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April 23, 2021 at 2:07 am
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sjogden
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From maybe 1957 on I’d use freight car red. I saw black ones in company service in the 1980s and found a photo in a book without an ampersand that appears black. But there was a movement to red paint on a lot of equipment at about the time blue and gray geeps were showing up.
In the mid fifties they assembled a bunch of 50’ cars with prefabricated sides in Marshall and these got red paint and diamonds. There was an ad in an old Railway Age showing this.
Jim
