Hey Rolly; Logically true IF we are talking about war emergency car designs built to conserve steel. If however the car has steel side sheathing and Improved Dreadnaught Ends (as the PRS 50 ft cars do IIRC) then they were built after the steel shortage eased and I strongly suspect should have steel running boards as well. As reference I will cite a post by Richard Hendrickson, #41668 on the Steam Era Freight Cars list reading in part:
"From the scant photographic evidence that's available, it appears that, after metal running boards became mandatory in 1944, some galvanized metal running boards were not painted and were applied after the roofs were coated on new and rebuilt cars, while others were applied first and coated with car cement like the rest of the roof." The message refered to the painting of wood and steel running boards on ATSF cars. There is a file available on the same list providing various AAR rule dates which lists 1945 as the cut off for wood running boards on new cars. Pieter Roos --- Rollain Mercier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and he notes - > > Wartime metal shortages would have postponed any > such requirement > until hostilities ended and as such wooden running > boards (aka roof > walks) were outlawed on cars built after 1945, but > there was no > requirement to replace them on existing cars. > > An interesting web page with information on when > certain features > were changed or outlawed: > > http://forums.detnews.com/hotbox/hotboxstory/details.cfm?id=187 > > Raleigh in windy Maine > See a list of RR videos at > http://www.emporiumpictures.com/ > email me for new releases: Emporium Pictures > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pieter E. Roos Railroad Home Page at www.geocities.com/pieter_roos/pieter_1.html Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
