M1 RPO Black Doors?

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The black ends were part of the mid-50's change in colors when black replaced brown roofs and green trucks.
Jim Nichols 

    On Thursday, December 14, 2017 10:30 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
 

 In looking at various N&W mail cars it appears that only the cars with the 15' mail apartment (I assume was a one man assignment) Class BMg and BMh had the black doors at some time within their career.  The big question would be when and how long but that we likely will never know.

Looking at the few M1 photos I have access too right now it is interesting to see just how much or how little black was used with these cars.

One example shows black ends, door frame and striker plates below the doors...

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/nw95.jpg

...while another shot shows only the door frame and striker plate being painted black.

https://imagebase.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/ns2052.jpeg

As for blue M1s for a time they were on loan in the mid-60s to the Florida East Coast who painted the cars up to match their equipment.  There is a shot of one of these cars that had been relettered N&W in the N&W COLOR GUIDE though how much use the cars saw, if anything, is not known by me.
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