Reading boxcar

While I do not know if this is true for Reading boxcars, the first Yellow and Green scheme was introduced on the GP30s when delivered new in 1962.  It is my assumption that the boxcars and other equipment started getting this scheme at that time or later.

Have you researched on the Reading  Company Technical and Historical Society web page?

@jhz563 posted:

Have you researched on the Reading  Company Technical and Historical Society web page?

I went there last night and the page is not complete.  A few broken or blank links.  That was my first thought!

@GG1 4877 posted:

I went there last night and the page is not complete.  A few broken or blank links.  That was my first thought!

Checked it out earlier today. I see what you mean.

The earliest photo of the Reading banner paint scheme I could locate was in the Railroad News Photo's section of the April 1965 issues of Trains Magazine.

It was noted as "a departure for a usually conservative road."

Rusty