Found a photo of The Round-up on the Web. It definitely has the full car length ridge above the letterboard which is what made me think it was a pre-war car. I wonder why, when the car was refurbis
Found a photo of The Round-up on the Web. It definitely has the full car length ridge above the letterboard which is what made me think it was a pre-war car. I wonder why, when the car was refurb
It probably was done because there was no reason to try to make the roof continous down to the top of the windows. They had structural members to tie into at the roof/side transition. Esthetics may h
Likely because the stainless is not structural - as it would be on the BURLINGTON and other such cars. Bob Webber [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To v
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Because the car has stainless steel sheathing overlaying standard steel, would not the car be subject to corrosion of the steel plates underneath, much as were Pullman-Standard s stainless steel shea
Sure it would. If it was built in the same manner. While both are sheathed, one is fully sheathed, and the openings through which water and other liquid and liquefied things got behind the P-S sheath
Another photo of The Round-up, clearly from the BN. http://railwayclassics.com/images/biz%20cars/BC-BN03.jpg I think someone previously mentioned where the car is now, but I would be appreciated