Bill and all, > They were painted blue to signify that they were not > part of the EL > property, or so I remember. That was around the time EL went into > bankruptcy, and General Foods owned or leased the cars > through the EL or > something convoluted (dedicated service?). Anyway, by > painting the cars > blue, they were somehow different from the rest of the EL cars. > Bill I seem to remember reading somewhere that GF originally wanted to buy a lot of 100 of these cars, and were painted up in blue paint, but they decided they didn't want to get into railroad car ownership, and so got their connecting railroads (BN and EL) to purchase them - EL got 75 (and left them in the GF blue) while BN got 25 (which got repainted BN green) - Paul ------------------------------
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