Reply To: Working at Durand, Kansas

[David Boeschen]

Yellow ends were supposed to signify occupied (outfit) cars, meaning for one thing, don’t couple into them the way you would a string of freight cars.

I’ve looked at some photos of steel outfit cars, rebuilt from both passenger or pullman cars and boxcars. One boxcar outfit car has the yellow on the ends only, with no wrapping onto the ends at all. Most show two to four feet of yellow on the sides, so in a passenger car that would take it a foot or so beyond the end of the vestibule. Charlie Duckworth posted some photos of wooden outfit cars rebuilt from boxcars or reefers, which also show three or four feet of wrapping onto the side.

Hope this helps.

RG7