colorado hirailer posted:Fantastic! But if they repaint it, won't that make it more like the Coor's car at Golden? Is this one of the cars that Atlas has done....I did not realize that Kingan was Hoosier headquartered?
The major difference is that this car is in fact an genuine original Kingan car. The repaint will be exactly the same as the original now on the car, and painted right over the original paint. Really, it's just a refreshing of the original paint on the original car.
I'm not sure if we should think of cars like this the same as many folks think of Postwar trains, that is, that a person shouldn't repaint them but leave them with their original paint. Maybe it would be better to leave it as it is. That said, the paint probably has already changed in some ways since the day it left the rails. Perhaps those who think it should be preserved in as-is condition should contact the preservation group and voice their opinion and get some more information.
The Coors car was not originally a Coors car but some other wood-side reefer that was completely repainted to represent a Coors car. It's nice (I've seen it several times) and is an actual wood-side reefer, but it was never a Coors reefer, and may have some differences from the original Coors versions.
Atlas O has done a Kingan's 36' reefer, but it had a different paint scheme.
