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Re: (erielack) BX Painting oddities continued...
This series is listed as (50400-50489), but I don't have any of the
later ORERs that would show it. Paul, I think this car (50480) was
never GMY, but rather this box car red was its EL passenger car scheme
because it was painted at Meadville and not Susquehanna. The latter
shop did the GMY cars. I think that explains the photo of (138) in the
EL Color Guide (p.30) which is box car red also and likely an MDV car.
There was a third group too, the DL&W BXs that never got EL passenger
numbers and went with their DL pass.numbers directly into this EL
(50400-50489) series. One other interesting note (with photos you can
actually make it out on) is that it seems the renumbering of most of
these cars (into 50400-50489) was done at Scranton. They all seem to
have the 'S' (followed by the date) which indicates that. So Scranton
just did the quickie patch paint and renumbering.
Mike O.
Paul R. Tupaczewski wrote:
> 50480_Leavittsburg_OH-9-20-75_-_Larry_De_Young.jpg (image/jpeg, 800x512 40653 bytes, BF: 10.08 ppb)
>
>
> I have this shot of EL 50480, one of the former GMY cars, taken by Larry De
> Young that shows it in another unique scheme - boxcar red with NO logo or
> roadname. It appears to be a "quickie" paint job, since the stencil
> "fingers" (the gaps in the roadnumbers) haven't been touched up. This is the
> only shot I have of one of these cars in red paint. Anyone have any others?
> For that matter, does anyone know the complete number series of these in EL
> years?
>
>
> - Paul
>
>
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