Steel vs. Aluminum (was: Ships vs freight cars (was:Detail of AAR 1937 boxcar - Murphy and Hutchins Roofs))
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Miller,Andrew S. <asmiller@...>
Before Aluminum cars would be cost effective, diesel fuel would have to
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become outlandishly expensive. Perhaps even as high a 50 cent a gallon!! Nah, that could never happen ;-) regards, Andy Miller -----Original Message-----
. . . No more were built because the cost was so great (Alcoa and Reynolds subsidized the material costs for the two experimental cars). |
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