Standard American railroad box cars from the sometimes colorful 1950's era.

I took this photograph last week, at the Oak Park Society of Model Engineers,H.O Scale
Model Railroad Club in Oak Park Illinois.

For many years, American railroad boxcars pretty much wore a standard rusty brown or
dark red solid color scheme, with either bold markings or very small ones. During the
1950's and 60's era, some railroads actually began experimenting with brighter colors
and stylized markings to modernize their image.

Seen here are two H.O Scale models of these boxcars wearing these colorful period markings
and color schemes. To the left is a model of a 40 foot box car from the Chicago & NorthWestern
Railroad in the green and yellow color scheme, promoting their "400" name train Streamliner
passenger trains, which advertised travel to the twin cities as being" 400 miles in 400 minutes."

The car to the right is a model of a 50 foot single sliding door prototype for the New York Central
Railroad, wearing the bright bold Jade green and black color scheme, with the NYC "Cigar Band"
style logo introduced during the late 1950's.

Thanks.
Eddie K.