Creating
Shadowline Decal Design using a desktop computer
CRAFTSMAN/Nelson P. Moyer, MMR, model photographs by the author
CB&Q 990 Scratchbuilt CB&Q Class BA-19 Havelock Economy Baggage Car Number 990 with shadowlining.
Top of page: The proto- type for this car project is seen fresh from the Havelock (Lincoln) Ne- braska shops. — CB&Q RR photograph by Fred Lehmann, April 4, 1951, Rod ‘Bat’ Masterson collection
Following World War II, many
railroads found a need to re- cycle some of their heavyweight cars for service on streamlined trains. The incongruency of Pull- man green heavyweight cars be- tween shiny fluted stainless steel cars could not pass unnoticed. Some railroads, including Chica- go, Burlington & Quincy, painted some of their heavyweight cars silver-gray to make them less noticeable in a streamlined con- sist. A subset of these simulated stainless steel cars received a shadowline paint treatment in- tended to simulate the fluted sides of stainless steel cars. Shadowline paint schemes
varied between and within rail- roads. Painters masked the cars horizontally, and then sprayed
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black or dark gray paint in a pat- tern resulting in a grayscale gra- dient that faded from dark gray on top to a thin shade of light gray at the bottom. Carefully per- formed paint jobs created sur- prisingly good results, at least from a reasonable distance on a moving train. Perhaps the best shadowline representation ap- pears on CB&Q Havelock econ- omy baggage car 990, shown in the builder’s photograph as pub- lished in Burlington Bulletin No. 36, page 34. The image at the top of this
page shows CB&Q Havelock Economy Baggage Car 990 in Simulated Stainless Steel and Shadowline Paint. Havelock economy baggage cars were CB&Q’s answer to
increased express and storage mail traffic after World War II. These lightweight cars followed plans developed by the Great Northern. Burlington construct- ed the cars with smooth welded sides and arched roofs, so they were a close approximation to streamlined stainless steel cars in form and appearance. The railroad built ten cars in Class BA-19, numbered 990–999, in its Havelock, Nebraska, shops in the spring of 1951. Burling- ton’s Aurora, Illinois, shops per- formed the shadowline painting. The railroad quickly abandoned the practice because it was ex- pensive and time-consuming, so few BA-19 shadowline cars ap- peared in service. The remaining cars received silver-gray paint
SHADOWLINE DECALS
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