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<p>Truck chains -- so when the tender derails the trucks and the body might not part ways too far and tear out brake rigging, stoker or booster piping (if so equipped), etc. Diesel-electric locomotives are so equipped for the same reason (and to avoid, one hopes, ripping out the traction motor leads and tearing up the traction-motor blower ducts). Of course in a violent wreck the truck chains part like so much taffy, but at least in a small derailment they have a good chance of functioning as intended.</p><p>Caboose interiors. Railroads varied in their preferred color, and changed from one color to another at different times. Typical color choices were bathroom green, battleship gray, and institutional tan -- the same colors used in diesel-electric locomotive cabs. Not very appealing.</p><p>S. Hadid </p>
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