I have a magazine at home with color images of stock cars and service - it might have a shot showing the interior. I will check by the weekend.
I doubt very much there was concern over lead paint in the 1940's or 1950's, but I could be wrong (wasn't around then...). I recall it being the late 1960s before anyone started worring about the effect, although the effects of lead poisoning were known. Pieter E. Roos --- On Thu, 8/30/12, Bob Werre <[email protected]> wrote: From: Bob Werre <[email protected]> Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: Stock car question... To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, August 30, 2012, 10:26 AM While the topic of stock cars has been approached...Don, have you found a safe way to remove the roof of your stock cars? I'll agree with Bill and state that the wooden cars wouldn't have had the slats painted. Metal cars might be another question, but I'd bet they still used lead paint into the 60's on the last of the stock cars. I would love to get the roofs off and then weather the inside a bit, add straw bedding and non-smelling additions to that straw! I think one could make some very nice 'cow pies' with a hot glue gun or even some blobs of older thickened paint. Bob Werre PhotoTraxx On 8/29/12 10:34 PM, Don Thompson wrote: I have a question and I know some of my buddies on this list have or work for railroads. The question is about the inside of a stock car. Were the boards painted on the inside or just the outside when these wooden cars were built? Any help would be appreciated... Don
