What was the color of this colored hopper from Omaha?

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I recently saw a B&W photo of PS2CD covered hopper lettered for the West Central Cooperative Grain Company in Omaha, Nebraska. The road number was WCDX 6517. The photo was posted on the Canadian Freight Railcar Gallery.

http://freight.railfan.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=wcdx6517&o=wcdx

Does anyone know the colors for the car and lettering on the car? I would like to paint and decal an HO kit to match.

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So far have not found any colored Railfan shots but will try to keep looking for a bit… [co]

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I found a picture of WCDX 6507 - leased to Farmland Co-op. Here is the web link:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2360744

Jim

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I spotted that one too but was hoping to find you that said “Cooperative Grain Company” on the side…

[C):-)]

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I just discovered that West Central was one of the coops that merged and formed Farmland Co-op.

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Unforunately that car with the FarMarCo/Farmland logo doesn’t really answer anything about the original colours, since it’s obviously a total repaint.

There were some later West Central cars that were in the ranks of the infamous pink grain cars:

http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=utcx43827&o=utlx

But these are larger cars built 15 years after the ones omaha is asking about in the original post.

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I believe that the pink West Central cars were from Iowa only. I am not aware of any connection with the ones from Omaha.