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First, I’m happy with the bulletin board structure we have that it doesn’t take that long to search stuff, even 2-1/2 years ago.
Now my questions. I have the Walthers model of the Cascade 10-5 sleeper from 1943 that was painted in Eagle colors. Two cars, Cascade Sound and Cascade Drive, were on the MoPac for most of the blue and gray era. There are even some photos of these two, one shown below and another photo in a TRRA society publication I have, although both are the corridor side, shot from the vestibule end.
Even the photo below doesn’t clearly tell me what color the ends were. (Dirt-color isn’t the answer I’m looking for,) I’m going to guess roof gray. The time frame I’m thinking of is late in their service life, although it turns out, according to the Pullman project, these two were repainted in Eagle colors in early 1954.
Was the skirting removed already when they were assigned to MP? Could also have been from 1954.
Ron Merrick
