Re: PC: Stainless and Aluminum

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To:             	penn-central -AT- smellycat.com
Date sent:      	Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:05:04 -0500
Subject:        	PC: Stainless and Aluminum
From:           	Walter B Turner <lnrr -AT- juno.com>
Send reply to:  	penn-central -AT- smellycat.com

You are right, I got them confussed. 
Bob Stafford
> Budds are stainless. We have a set of Pennsy/PC/Amtrak Budd coaches at
> the North Alabama Railroad Museum in Huntsville.
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> I'm not sure how many builders tried aluminum, but ACF built lightweight
> trainsets for the L&N's post-war streamliners Azalean and Humming Bird.
> >From what I've heard, there was no end of problems where the steel frame
> joined the aluminum body.
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> Bryan Turner
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> >Budd Company held the patent on shot welding aluminium. 
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> >I thought Budd used stainless steel, correct me if I am wrong.
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