Dave, you are correct that the stainless steel heavyweight U-series tourist
sleepers were retired very soon after they were removed from service in late
1965. I remember seeing one at Farnham in 1967 and another one in Sortin Yard
around the same time, but these were the only ones.
However I believe the silver heavyweight cars Jeff referred to were the cars
painted silver on their original steel sides, not stainless sheathing. I recall
heavyweight sleepers Tracy and Travers were painted silver, one with tuscan
stripes and the other with an Action Red stripe. I'm not sure if any other
heavyweight sleepers were painted silver. Some of the business cars were also
silver so they could be operated on The Canadian. I don't believe that any
heavyweight coaches were painted silver.
Don Thomas
----- Original Message -----
From: dave hill <techill@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, November 25, 2011 10:41 am
Subject: Re: [cpsig] Re: action red colour scheme
To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The Heavyweight coaches refered to are the U series coaches???
They were
supossed to be scrapped by1966 so were gone by repaint
time regards DAVID
HILL
----- Original Message -----
From: <jpinchbeck@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: [cpsig] Re: action red colour scheme
The 2200 series coaches weren't given the same treatment. Some
cars had
recently been painted silver with tuscan stripes and many if not
all of
these retained this appearance. A number of coaches were painted
silver with
an Action red stripe. Both of these as well as all-tuscan
coaches were used
on The Canadian as needed until VIA if not beyond.
I think that was true for the lightweight baggage express and
GROVE cars
too. Didn't the silver heavyweight cars keep the tuscan
letterboard also?
jeff
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