RobertInOntario
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60103 said:Robert: Did we answer your first question yet? TH&B freight cars would travel in anybody's freight trains. Since the line was located in the Hamilton area, they had to use other lines to get to most destinations.
Repainting freight cars isn't a prority job with most railways (You can tell by looking at the grafitti) and railways tend to do the minimum -- reporting marks, numbers, legally required lettering.Since CPR and TH&B were friendly roads, CP probably ran the cars in the old lettering until they fell apart.
One other point: because of the fee sharing CP probably tried to run cars originating on their line as far as possible on CP or CP owned lines.
Thanks, David. I suspected as much -- it seems most other railways (when railways changed hands) did not change liveries or colours until much later, if at all. I realize we got off topic a little, but it was still on a related topic! Cheers, Rob