Re: Color of RGS Passenger Cars in 1930s?

Dave Vollmer Wrote:
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> So... It sounds > like if I wanted to finish the cars as they were
> at the end of passenger service I'd do Pullman
> Green with gold lettering. And yet that picture
> of the Barriger special makes coach 252 look red
> with white lettering and...what appears to be a
> black quarter-round on the end closest to the
> engine.
>
The 252 would have been MOW red by then (1938). The cars only kept their green until the regular steam train service was Goosed in 31-32.

As Dave later pointed out that schedule he mentions was an abbreviated schedule necessitated by the break in the line at Ames.