Blue Norfolk Southern boxcar?

[shawnee]

Oh geez, I wasn't aware that Walthers is one of the manufacturers that makes up fictional freight car/road name combos.  I thought the stuff they came out with had some basis in the prototype other than the fact that the car type exists in general.

The blue NS boxcar definitely aroused my curiousity, and now suspicion.

I knew Athearn does that, but I'm disappointed Walthers does it too, especially as this isn't their "Trainman" line.

S.

[ericsp]

I do not recall seeing blue Conrail boxcars, only brown.

I think this is a fictional paint scheme. The car is NS 456724 (http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/932-7112). I looked at http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/ and http://www.railcarphotos.com/, however I found nothing similar to this car around that number. Also, Walthers made this car for SP, SSW, and CNW. SP and SSW had nothing close to this car. The CNW car has the number of a car built by NSC. The Walthers car is a model of a Gunderson (or Trenton Works) car.

[shawnee]

Stix, that would make sense but the Walthers model doesn't seem to be a patch.  Looks like it was supposed to be a new paint job.  Anyway, hoping someone tells me there is a blue NS boxcar out there in the big world, like there are snow leopards and white elephants.  

[wjstix]

My guess would be it's a relettered Conrail car, from when Conrail was split up a few years ago.

[shawnee]

Has anyone ever seen a blue Norfolk Southern boxcar?  Walthers had produced and sold this model, but I'm wondering if there is any boxcar in the NS prototype that is actually blue.  I've only seen the ubiquitous Tuscan colored boxcars.  Walthers says this is a paper high cube boxcar - does that make a difference in coloring?