N&W Boxcar pre-1963 paint scheme question

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AFAIK the cars with this lettering style were standard N&W boxcar brown.  I do not believe boxcars were painted black until the adoption, in 1971 I believe, of the large NW stenciling scheme. 



Jim Brewer 



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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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