--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Aeolus3@... wrote:
>
> Silver Rapids carried the Burlington and CZ equipment's full
skirting into
> Penn Central. I have a photo of the car in PC and the skirting is
still in
> place. Silver Rapids went into Amtrak.If the skirting was removed
Amtrak removed
> it, however today Silver Rapids has the full skirting so perhaps
Amtrak didn't
> remove it.
>
> I don't understand why BLI didn't use a different stock number for
the new
> release of Silver Rapids. The other thing I never understood was
why all the
> stainless steel equipment used by Seaboard, ACL, FEC, and PRR had
black roofs.
> Here are cars used in Florida service with black roofs. A buddy of
mine who is a
> SPF, told me that the roofs weren't painted black, the roofs were
coated with
> an anti skid.
>
> Funny how things happen..... I bought many years ago a Soho Pullman
10-5 to
> use in my CZ in place of Silver Rapids which I also have in my
consist, thus
> over the years I now have a model of the Broadway Limited.
>
> Loren Johnson
>
> It is my understanding that during WW2 the roofs of streamlined
passenger cars were painted black. For the most part this only
applied to cars running on railroads near the coast lines. That might
be one of the answers to your question.
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
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