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Jason Midyette

December 06, 2016 12:50PM

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From photos of the Alamosa car shops, the Rio Grande was using a sprayer to paint freight cars by the early 1920's if not before. That said, brush painting would most likely have resulted in little to no coverage of the underside of the cars

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box car detail question	stuart olson	December 06, 2016 09:34AM
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