John, one last point on Gold Vs. white stencils on UTLX cars. A not well
known point is that UTC did not have its own mfg. facility until 1967! Prior
to then the tanks were built by Graver Tank in East Chicago, In. and they
were then attached to frames,trucks,etc in the open air near the Std OIl
refinery at East Chicago. In 1967 UTC bought a former bus construction
facility in East Chicago from of all companies GATX.Today that facility is
UTC plant one where we are currently building 40 new tank cars a week. In
addition hundreds of old UTLX cars were built at ACF in Missouri prior to the
development of Plant one.ACF's standard stenciling was white. So I suspect if
UTC didn't specify they came off the line w/white stencils. We still have
some old ACF built cars in the fleet.
Leo
P.S.-our shops hate them.
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