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| CN 283032 displays its rather tired-looking promotional graphics in the
early 1990s, more than twenty years after its initial decoration. |
By Peter Mumby
In
1970 CN painted a group of four freight cars in special paint schemes
for a series of television ads. Each piece of rolling stock had one
side decorated in colourful graphics demonstrating the type of product
carried by the particular car type. The car ends and the opposite side
were painted as per normal. Mechanical reefer CN 235091 was decorated
with a side of beef. Cylindrical hopper CN 370708 featured vertical
coloured bands. Newsprint box car CN 401527 was decorated with
newspaper mastheads displayed diagonally across the car side. Insulated
box car CN 283032, the subject of today's photo, was painted to
represent a typical load of fruit. Most photos of these cars that I
have seen show the paintwork in pristine condition, circa the early
1970s. Today's photo demonstrates what more than twenty years of wear
and tear have done to the special graphics. Note that the ACI label has
disappeared, and that up-to-date lube panels have been applied.
Commercial models of the newsprint box car and the cylindrical hopper
have been available in HO scale, but I don't recall seeing renditions of
the other two.
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