N&W Boxcar pre-1963 paint scheme question

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Tue Mar 12 12:39:02 EDT 2013


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

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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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