MW colors

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1950s MofW cars were generally gray with a brown or red roof with black lettering:

https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=139599 <https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=139599>

https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=157036 <https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=157036>


They switched over to green with white lettering and silver roofs sometime in the mid to late 1950s, don’t have a specific date at the moment.

There are a few other oddities, such as a car painted all aluminum paint with black lettering.

The green with white lettering switched to different schemes with the half-moon herald in the mid 1960s, and then over to the NW scheme about 1970. The orange was a Southern change after the merger, and the blue? Never recall seeing anything that was actually blue in MofW.

Ken Miller

> On Jul 29, 2019, at 4:11 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> I pass this question on from a friend to the more knowledgeable of you.
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> I am doing several MW cars for N & W.  I also have 4 that I picked up over the years.  The ones I have picked up are dark green (Gondolas and Hoppers).  They have MW numbers.  However, in pictures I see Black, Dirty red/orange and for personnel cars - Blue.  Any idea what is correct for the late 50's?
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