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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