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Hi John-- In 1953 the only Budd cars that might have shown up in the City of San Fransisco or the SF Overland would have been UP Pacific-series 10-6 sleepers. Those cars might have been in two-tone gray on the Overland, but UP began painting all of its passenger equipment in Armour yellow in 1952. The Cities trains had been in Armour yellow from inception before WWII. Once in a while a substitute car would show up on the City of San Fransisco in a paint scheme other than Armour yellow, but that was the exception rather than the rule. I haven't seen any photos of the City with any heavyweight cars in the consist--until the 1960s. A pair of Budd 44-seat coaches (nos 2362 and 2363) were painted in Armour yellow for the City of San Fransisco, but they weren't delivered until March 1954. The SF Overland regularly carried heavyweights during the 1950s among its head-end cars, coaches and diners. Whether UP, SP or C&NW cars, they might have been Pullman green, two-tone gray or Armour yellow. The SP didn't adopt silver (or "simulated stainless steel") and red as the general passenger equipment paint scheme until 1958. Cars for the Sunset Limited, Golden State, Sunbeam, and some other trains did get that paint scheme in 1953 (or before) and some cars from those trains did appear in the SF Overland at that time as substitute or extra cars.
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