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Re: VIDEO: R32 on the L - Was: Making the (Z) a full-time route |
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Posted by randyo on Wed May 6 11:41:07 2015, in response to Re: VIDEO: R32 on the L - Was: Making the (Z) a full-time route, posted by Joe V on Tue May 5 18:11:29 2015. Well, when I was in chemistry class in high school, we were taught that stainless steel was “chrome steel” presumably meaning that the stainless steel alloy contains chrome to make it shiny. When the R-32s were first delivered while they were relatively shiny, but nota much as after GOH except for the last 4 3946 thru 3949 which were also the 4 R-32s with the Pioneer III trucks. Those 4 cars were at least as shiny as the post GOH 32s and when the TA asked the Budd Co what they did to make those cars so shiny, the company declined to comment possibly fearing some sort of reprisals for not following contract specs to the letter. I notice that the R-68s and 68As don’t have quite an attractive look to them as the R-46s having a sort of yellowish cast to them and not being as shiny as the R-46s and even the 44s. |
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