Growing up on C&NW's Wisconsin Division, I noticed a change in the livery of the equipment. Photos taken in 1963 show lightweight passenger cars with black pin stripes but later photos do not show this. Did this have anything to do with the aquisition of the gallery commuter cars? Does anyone know when this change took place?
Considering that the first gallery coaches arrived in 1955, I would think that the acquisition of that equipment was not a factor. Cost probably had more to do with the deletion of the pinstripes than anything else.
I believe the switch occurred in 1958. The green letter board lost the thin black outline stripes and the lettering changed from silver to stagecoach yellow. The stripes under the window were eliminated as well as the green skirting. The same changes were seen on E units as well. Simpler and cheaper for the C&NW - cheap and nothing wasted!! The older livery persisted through much of the 1960s.
charlie hebdoSimpler and cheaper for the C&NW - cheap and nothing wasted!!
+2!!!
zardoz ALSO THE "NOTHING WORTHWILE" charlie hebdo Simpler and cheaper for the C&NW - cheap and nothing wasted!! For those of us who gave the CNW 30 years of their lives, the true meaning was Cheap & Nothing Works.
ALSO THE "NOTHING WORTHWILE"
charlie hebdo Simpler and cheaper for the C&NW - cheap and nothing wasted!!
For those of us who gave the CNW 30 years of their lives, the true meaning was Cheap & Nothing Works.
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