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Jason Midyette

April 26, 2016 11:08AM

Registered: 16 years ago
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I can not shed any light on exactly when the D&RGW switched from red to black, but I can attest that each of the several D&RGW 5000 series stock cars that I have worked on show evidence of red paint under the black. In many cases, the red is several layers thick and some of the cars still bear their original AC&F reporting mark and number stencils inside, indicating that most of the original structure survived the rebuild.

I had always thought that the black color came about at the same time as the rebuilds, but have no proof.

Jason Midyette

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Restoration progress on D&RGW stock car 5672	LooseCaboose	April 22, 2016 10:49PM
Re: Restoration progress on D&RGW stock car 5672	John Cole	April 23, 2016 07:39AM
Re: Restoration progress on D&RGW stock car 5672	AZfarmer	April 25, 2016 11:20PM
Re: Restoration progress on D&RGW stock car 5672	Randy Hees	April 26, 2016 08:09AM
Re: Restoration progress on D&RGW stock car 5672	Jason Midyette	April 26, 2016 11:08AM
Re: Restoration progress on D&RGW stock car 5672	TonyK375	April 30, 2016 10:45AM
Re: Restoration progress on D&RGW stock car 5672	Andrew Brandon	April 28, 2016 10:44PM

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