CB&Q Chinese Red

[bandofan]

Hi,

I’m far from a CB&Q expert, but I’d like to know when the CB&Q started using the Chinese red paint scheme on their freight cars. I model 1956 and want to see if it’s appropriate for my layout.

Thanks!!!

Mark Mincek

[kansaspacific1]

According to the index for the Burlington Route Historical society publication, the first Chinese red box car was #62500 (XM-32F) 2-58. I remembered that Accurail’s earliest model in Chinese Red was built in 1958 (too late for my time period), so I did a goggle search for “chinese red date,” and found the above reference. Perhaps others can verify from other data.

Chuck

[mobilman44]

Hi!

I had a Lionel layout in the '50s and my Mother bought me an All-Nation CB&Q boxcar kit in that beautiful Chinese Red color at that time. I believe she got it in early 1958, and my thought is that if there was an All-Nation model, then there was a prototype.

Mobilman44

PS: Look up the CB&Q historical/modeling society and they will surely know.

[RedGrey62]

According to the index for the Burlington Route Historical society publication, the first Chinese red box car was #62500 (XM-32F) 2-58. I remembered that Accurail’s earliest model in Chinese Red was built in 1958 (too late for my time period), so I did a goggle search for “chinese red date,” and found the above reference. Perhaps others can verify from other data.

Chuck

Chuck, you’re right on the money, March 1958.

Rick Keil