The Great Northern’s plywood boxcars COLLECTION OF GNRHS
Like the first 400 cars, the 10094 (left), from the 10000-10499 series, received Camel/ Youngstown doors. The remaining 100 cars received Superior doors with the bottom door track mounted a few inches higher up. See the photo of Superior equipped 10500 (left, below) for a comparison. The lettering and colors were like the 44025 series. They would be repainted mineral red like the 44047 at least by the early fifties. The 10500 (part of the 10500-10899 series) had Supe- rior doors. Other cars in this series had im- proved Youngstown (Camel) doors. Scotch- light had been used on the express boxcars, but with this series it was used also on freight boxcars. The lettering was black with Scotchlight used for the road name, initials and lettering in the mono- gram. The outer ring of the monogram and background for the white goat is red.
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green and white. The roof, ends, under- body and trucks were black. After 1947 the cars would be repainted all mineral red with white lettering and a black and white herald. Many repaints had early 1950s service dates. After 1956, the cars would be repainted vermilion with mineral red underbody and trucks and given Empire Builder type billboard road name lettering. The sides of express boxcars 2501- 2524 were also painted orange with green trim, with the roof, ends and un- derbody black. Black Scotchlight was used for the road name, initials and for the lettering in the herald, while black paint was used for the remaining side lettering. The outer ring of the herald and the background for the goat was Crimson Red Scotchlight. The goat was white Scotchlight.
By 1948 the express boxcars would start being repainted Pullman Green, receiving Scotchlight yellow lettering and initially a yellow background to the black Scotchlight lettering in the original herald. Later, an all-yellow Great Northern Railway herald with a
When repainted mineral red, the Scotch- light features were initially retained with a white background added. The 10558 (above right) seems to have a 1950 repaint date and a 1961 service date in this photo. Great Northern 10796 (right) has an im- proved Youngstown (Camel) door and has been repainted vermilion with Empire Builderbillboard size lettering.
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white goat on a Caboose Red back- ground was used.
By 1957 Great Northern’s 40-foot ex-
press cars had started to be repainted into their “loader” scheme. Thus the up- per half of the side was painted orange, while the roof, ends and lower half of the sides were Pullman Green; the under- body and trucks were painted black. The Empire Builder type road name was green, as was the outer ring and text of the herald. The goat was white, on a red background, and the lettering on the green surfaces was done in white. Re- paints using this scheme in the 1960s used black and white heralds. The plywood-side express boxcars were converted to freight boxcars in
AUTHOR’S COLLECTION: WALT THAYER RON NORDBY
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