Passenger Trains > Daylight painted heavyweights???

Did southern Pacific repaint/paint and heavyweight cars into the daylight paint scheme?

Yes, several baggage cars, a combine, a couple of diners and some coaches.
Mostly for use as back-ups for the streamliner equipment.

Heavyweight baggage and RPOs also were in Daylight colors. Normal part of the San Joaquin Daylight consists.

SPB

SP only had two lightweight baggage cars originally and they were used on the Sunbeam/Hustler. San Joaquin Daylight and Lark had heavyweight head-end cars. Some lightweight cars appeared late in the game, the "economy" baggage cars and lightweight RPOs built for the Cascade and Shasta Daylight.
They also painted heavyweight diners and lounges in Daylight colors (and UP yellow) for back-up.
SP probably had more color schemes than any other railroad, which must have cost a fortune but made for great train-watching and modeling!

Bill Deaver
Tehachapi, CA

Here's an SP car in UP colors at Oakland in 1967. I was staying near the SP depot in Berkeley and bought a ticket to San Francisco--three miles on the train and eight miles on the bus.



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Here's SP 3176, the heavyweight combine used on the Sacramento Daylight from 1946 to around 1960. Looking a little the worse for wear in 1969, but still wearing its Daylight colors.

It's now in the hands of the Pacific Locomotive Association in Niles Canyon, California, painted Olive Green and lettered for SP subsidiary Arizona Eastern, under its original number 453. It's undergoing major work to repair extensive corrosion of the roof sheets.

~ BZ



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Didn't this car run on the Sierra IIN THE 70S?

Although I'm not a modler, I do wish that someone would come out with an accurate set of Harriman cars. The old MDC stuff looked OK but the battleship rivets and overall proportions just made it train set like.

John Gezelius
Tustin, CA

Southern Car & Foundry has kits. I don't have any experience with them, but they seem interesting and look correct at first glance:

http://southerncarandfoundry.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=2

These are small low-res pics from their site. The baggage car could be modified with blanked windows and represent SP 6448, Class B-70-9, which was painted in Daylight colors.

Within this basic 70-foot Common Standard Baggage car fleet, certain cars at various times in their lives wore Olive Green (example: SP 6068); Two-Tone Gray (SP 6452); Daylight; Simulated Stainless Steel with a narrow Daylight Red stripe outlined in black ("Sunset" scheme, SP 6080); SSS with a Scarlet stripe and Lark Dark Gray underbody ("General Service", SP 6486); solid Lark Dark Gray (SP 6478); and even a late 1950s experimental scheme of medium gray body (Harbormist Gray?) with black roof and underbody (SP 6493).

A further modification for operation from the late 1950s to retirement in the early-mid 60s would be the addition of one-piece 'ply-metal' baggage doors with a single square round-cornered window in each. SP 6448 eventually got those when in Daylight colors.

~ BZ



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