Is anybody able to tell me when the Wabash started to paint their freight rolling-stock blue?
Thanks,
Ed
1964, or right before the N&W takeover. And that’s only for a very few large-capacity auto parts cars; virtually all Wabash boxcars were a version of medium boxcar brown.
Thanks, Ray, for that information.
Atlas ‘O’ have announced a Wabash 1937 AAR single-door 40ft boxcar in blue, but I can’t read the paint or weighing dates on the published image. The only Wabash car I have is a 50ft car, but from the info that you have provided I can see that the blue one is too late for my favoured modelling period.
Besides, all boxcars should be brown; it should be de rigueuer!
Ed
The Wabash had 4 - 40’ Boxcars #750-753 painted blue. It was apparently removed from passenger service and re-classed from BX to XM sometime in 1963. These were ex-NJI&I cars from series 1400-1699 which were in turn acquired from the NH, The original cars were built in 1944.
Rick
i worked right next door to that outfit back in the sixties when i hired out on the Big Four at Brooklyn Illinois and the only blue cars i ever saw over in their yard with their reporting marks were a few new or near new high cube auto parts cars. i don’t think they ever went on a re-painting binge like so many other railroads who must have had an identity crisis. of course the Norfolk and everywhere came along and then all rules went out the window. the original Wabash wouldn’t repaint a building, much less a box car. at least they didn’t give you a rubber bag to use instead of a toilet.
grizlump
Thank you, Rick and ‘Grizlump9’, for those two further pieces of information.
Regarding the Atlas ‘O’ car recently announced, they rarely get anything wrong on their models and the car number that is featured on their website since last Friday is car number 751. That’s spot-on for the small number series that actually existed. Enlarging the image didn’t provide all of the info I would have liked as it isn’t clear enough.
The weighing date appears to be 11.63, but if this image had been published on-line in one of the Atlas quarterly catalogues, it would have enlarged to 800% easily and everything would have been crystal clear.
I have a self-imposed cut-off date for my modelling of mid-1956, but like you Rick, I’m not fastidious. I would have no problem abiding by your rules! It is as much of a budgetary constraint as anything. We’d all be broke wi
i don’t know/care how to put a link in this but go to the fallen flags web site and look at wabash car number 55000. it was taken in 1964.
grizlump
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Thank you, Rick and ‘Grizlump9’, for those two further pieces of information.
Regarding the Atlas ‘O’ car recently announced, they rarely get anything wrong on their models and the car number that is featured on their website since last Friday is car number 751. That’s spot-on for the small number series that actually existed. Enlarging the image didn’t provide all of the info I would have liked as it isn’t clear enough.
The weighing date appears to be 11.63, but if this image had been published on-line in one of the Atlas quarterly catalogues, it would have enlarged to 800% easily and everything would have been crystal clear.
I have a self-imposed cut-off date for my modelling of mid-1956, but like you Rick, I’m not fastidious. I would have no problem abiding by your rules! It is as much of a budgetary constraint as anything. We’d all be broke without a bit of self-co