After the establishment of JR, it was one of the vehicles that changed the painting to create a new image. The locomotive No. 9 in EF65 was active until 1994 when it was changed to brown during vehicle inspection in 1989. After the retirement of locomotive No. 9, locomotive No. 56 inherited its brown paint. But unlike the No. 9 locomotive, "JR Cargo" was printed on the side of the hull and received much attention at the time.