Alright, i'm not having much luck finding any pictures of a yellow Illinois Terminal gondola any where. I was wondering, were the trucks really painted a bright red color? (thinking of switching to Kadee trucks on my Athearn model)
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http://www.railcarphotos.com/PhotoDetails.php?PhotoID=49749 Trucks don't appear to be red.
http://books.google.com/books?id=-418fSrmYu8C&pg=PA59&lpg=PA59&dq=itc+gondola&source=bl&ots=_a9EKMTPjT&sig=OknTiZPg09qU_I4YG39lz14xvCQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8-BQUqLcIfje4AP-4IHQDw&ved=0CFYQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=itc%20gondola&f=false See page 59 of this link. Picture is not color, but description describes trucks as red.
Not bright red, but "boxcar red" (oxide brown):
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=itc3801&o=itc
Chris van der Heide
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