Re: A PURPLE Boxcar...A First For Colorado NG? Entire USA?

Hi,

I have been looking for the ACL purple box cars. The ACL was around from 1900-1963?).

I have seen one but could not find it on the web.

I asked Larry Goolsby of the ACL-SAL-SCL historical group about it.

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Doug, thanks for contacting us. ACL did not have a solid purple boxcar; I assume what the writer had in mind was ACL's aluminum and purple express refrigerator cars (built 1947), which certainly had a lot of purple on them but also wide aluminum bands - a scheme similar to ACL diesels and heavyweight passenger cars of the period. I couldn't put my hands on a prototype photo but here's an accurate model photo -

ACL purple box cars

So for all I know, the D&S purple boxcar could in fact be the first all-purple boxcar.

Hope this helps -

Larry
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So, if you want to, paint two silver/grey stripes down the sides, use the D&S lettering (also Durham and Southern - a past of SCL), and add Railway Express Agency lettering, you would have a NG version of a SG railroad's boxcar.

FWIW.

Doug vV

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