Thanks to all who have written about the painting of
Freight Car Trucks.

Guy,

Does your statement mean that if I am modeling the 50s
or later, my trucks can be a mixture of black and
"same as the body" colored trucks? (Mainly SP cars)

Jim Scott
Lompoc, CA.

Guy Wilber writes:

Heavy bodied asphalt paint (black) was widely used

as a rust inhibitor on

trucks by manufacturers into 1948. In that year

the AAR banned the use of

these heavy types of paints because they prevented

visual inspections

(for >cracking) of side frames and bolsters.

Painting was still allowed;

Rule 3, (t) >(3e) "parts may be coated with light

bodied paint that will

not prevent >detection of flaws or cracks in

ordinary inspection. Car

wheels must NOT be >painted. "Note -- Existing

truck side frames and

bolsters painted with heavy base paint or having

accumulation of rust

scaled, must have such paint and scale >removed

when cars receive general

repairs."

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