04-08-2010, 10:51 PM
Thanks for the reply GEC! Regarding the frames, I recently read in Pennsy Electric Years that the cracking was so bad and obvious that the PRR often repainted the running gear of the GG1s, P5s, and P5as to cover up and therefore hide the cracks from the FRA inspectors. True? I don't know, I wasn't there but I believe it. It was a different world back then. The fines levid would be steep for that nowadays.
-Dave