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The Andrew Dow book has some info on the COR-TEN program and has a color image on the rear cover of the book. I'm not at the office right now, but will dig up some more info later tonight.</div>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: Hopper Paint Schemes in the 1970s<br>
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Does anyone other than me remember the group of cars built of COR-TEN steel that received only stenciling in white paint with the rest of the car left unpainted?
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<div dir="auto">I recall that there was much negative comment and eventually those cars received a coat of black paint.</div>
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<div dir="auto">As information, COR-TEN steel forms a stable outer layer of rust that doesn’t require painting.</div>
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An interesting thing about hopper paint. N&W in the 70's utilized paint from seven manufacturers. On the hopper's side was a circle showing date painted and paint used. Example: PPG - SW and others. Harry Bundy</div>
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<div dir="auto">I grew up along the Pocahontas District M/L in the 70’s and 80’s. I saw the passing of many coal and hopper trains. I think your hypothesis about the prevalence of the half-moon paint scheme on hoppers in the 70’s is mostly correct. As I
recall the trains never really had a uniform appearance. There was a continuous blend of paints schemes which included the 1971 NW, 1964 half moon, pre-1964 steam era, Virginian and NKP. The most common car types would’ve probably been the 100 ton H-11 family
cars in the half moon scheme. I think the first new cars in the ‘71 NW scheme were the H11E’s followed by the H12’s. The occasional Virginian cars were the H14 3 bay 70 ton cars. The occasional NKP cars were the composite side H43 & H44 3 bay 70 ton cars.
The N&W H10’s in steam era paint were also very common with some in half moon paint. There were also occasional early H-11’s in steam era paint. I hope this helps answer your question.</div>
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I have no clue as to which hopper paint scheme was most prevalent during any given era, but that won't stop me from commenting. Ha Ha. I would suggest that certain paint schemes are more prevalent in the photographic record due to selection bias. Personally,
I never liked the NW "stick lettering" scheme, therefore, I rarely photographed equipment painted in that scheme, after all, film is expensive and I wasn't about to waste it on something I didn't like. The same can be said for book publishers. They print
the pictures they like best and leave out the rest. An absence of stick lettered equipment could simply be due to the selection bias of the photographers, authors, and editors, not any particular absence of any specific equipment. </div>
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Also, equipment would be painted in any particular scheme if it was 1) new, or 2) just receiving a major rebuild. Existing equipment, with the possible exception of motor power, just was not repainted until it was absolutely necessary to do so. </div>
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<div dir="auto">I grew up in the 80s, so I didn't get to witness 1970s era N&W firsthand, but it's probably my favorite N&W era for diesels. While there are a variety of sources to help identify what classes of hopper cars were in service, I'm curious about
the mix of paint schemes. Looking through "Norfolk And Western In Color Volume 3", it looks like the 1960s era half-moon/hamburger schemes, albeit with consolidated lube plates and other updated data, were actually more common than cars in the NW scheme that
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<div dir="auto">Can anyone else confirm this, or know of other sources I should look at?</div>
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