----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Pinchbeck" <jpinchbeck@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 9:50 AM
Subject: RE: [cpsig] Colour of CPR boxcars in 1940s-1950s
I wish to paint undecorated Athearn steel boxcars to reflect CPR usage
in the late 1940s and early 1950s. I seem to remember them as basic
boxcar red but they may have been tuscan red. Can anyone provide me
with some clarity in this matter?
Basic freight colours were oxide red for "enclosed" cars (ie. Box, reefer)
and black for open cars (ie. Gondola, flat, hopper).
