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Were those cars 1, 8, 10 and 11, and if so, where was 9 normally kept?
The December photos which show #1 on the end with canvas over the railing also show what appears to be a silver painted coupler. Wasn’t painting the coupler or drawbar considered a defect under FRA rules? In the late 1970s, when several of us operated the IC sleeper Cynthia in MP Eagle colors out of Little Rock, we failed an inspection because one of the owners had gotten overenthusiastic with spray paint and had coated those “rusty” couplers with paint. We were told that the paint might conceal a defect such as a cracking drawbar, and it was necessary to sandblast our couplers back to bare metal to comply with the inspector’s wishes. Perhaps the MP president’s car operated under more relaxed rules.
Bill Pollard
