N&W Boxcar pre-1963 paint scheme question

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The N&W had a paint scheme used on boxcars before the half-moon logo
scheme.  It was the pre-1963 scheme that had the Norfolk and Western
roadname spelled out in capital Roman style font lettering in white or
silver, w/ N&W reporting marks & car number on the other end in Roman
font.  Some of the cars had silver doors some did not.   My question is,
were these cars ever BLACK, or were they only the brown/boxcar red in this
particular paint scheme?    I looked at a friend's copy of the N&W Color
Guide, and an example of this scheme in question is on page 39 of a combo
door 50' boxcar. In the pic, the boxcar looks almost black, but I think
it's actually dark brown, in a dark pic.  Did N&W ever paint boxcars w/
that paint scheme in black?

Athearn made this exact car in HO but it is in BLACK, and I want to make
sure they were accurate on this- they tend to do a lot of wrong things in
HO.

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