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pd3463

January 31, 2017 03:41PM

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Looking further in books, I have now turned up the captions that coach 300 being pictured freshly out shopped in Alamosa in red paint 7/7/40 and across the page an interior picture of 300 on 7/24/40 in Gunnision on the tail end of the Shavano, behind the parlor car.

Other pictures and captions indicate the cars are in storage in both Salida and Alamosa. I can't seem to make heads or tails to this practice with red paint. Was it cheaper than green?

Phil

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Red passenger cars in the 30s	pd3463	January 29, 2017 07:11PM
Re: Red passenger cars in the 30s	pd3463	January 31, 2017 03:41PM
Re: Red passenger cars in the 30s	Bob Meckley	February 02, 2017 10:27AM
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