N&W Boxcar pre-1963 paint scheme question

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The old Athearn no longer exists. After old Irv passed, the family sold 
it to Horizon Hobby.
No one cares...

Tom Cosgrove

On 3/10/2013 10:08 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:

> What?  A big company like that with a picky customer base makes a 

> production run based on one overexposed photo?  Seems hard to 

> believe....someone from Athearn should chime in here.

>

> Sent from my HTC on the Now Network from Sprint!

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> From: "NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

> Date: Sat, Mar 9, 2013 9:53 pm

> Subject: N&W Boxcar pre-1963 paint scheme question

> To: <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

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> I can remember my local Hobby Shop owner talking about this particular 

> car. The Athearn Rep had stopped by the store and discussed this 

> model. Athearn had made the model black based on what they saw in the 

> picture. The Owner told the Rep that the car was actually boxcar red  

> and that the lighting in the picture gave it there black look. Looking 

> at the photo in the book, around the door, the color is definitely of 

> a brown hue. Alan Cox

> In a message dated 3/9/2013 6:45:34 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, 

> nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

>

>     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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Tom Cosgrove
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