Reply To: Early MP Containers

[David Boeschen]

Note that this photo shows container G105 being loaded. It has a fairly simple paint scheme with one panel on the side carrying a buzzsaw. Note also that there’s an additional view, perhaps MoPac publicity, that appears to be the same photo, still with the number G105 on the front, with a quite different paint scheme that appears to be retouched.

I’m wondering if the paint scheme with the larger lettering panel and the ‘Truck-Rail Service’ slogan was designed after the first few containers were built and the PR department wanted to include that in the materials they published.

Ron Merrick