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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by dknelson The NP had a handsome paint scheme for box cars and back in the 1960s you's see them pretty often. Even into the 1980s I would see them in Galesburg, although less often here in Milwaukee. I remember seeing a wood outside braced NP boxcar on a deadline in Galesburg circa 1983 - pity that some museum didn't get it. In the early days of Amtrak NP cab units were a fairly common sight. Those were the days ... and railfans hated Amtrak at first because the consists did NOT match but were a jumble of railroads. Now they complain that it is all uniform and uninteresting. Dave Nelson [/quote] I have actually seen a piece of NP equipment myself in the last year, but unfortunately not actually in use. In Regina, Saskatchewan at the scrapyard of Wheat City Metals, there's an old NP heavyweight baggage car in the two-tone green paint scheme, number 1587. There's actually a whole lot of frieght cars that are going to be scrapped there, but they're all piled up with their trucks removed and the baggage car is sitting on a siding next to a building away from where the others cars are. Hopefully it won't end up getting scrapped! I wonder how it ever got there in the first place?
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