A Q about F4 plasterboard flatcars

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Cardinal Riccardo Batessini doth send the ye trailing item.  Before he came
to own a boat-load of  (watered-down) Reading RR Stocks and Gold Bonds, he
was known as just Rick Bates of Philadelphia... but wealth does wonders for
one's social cache, ya know !  Due to his new-found social status among the
elite, he was asked to serve as Exalted Grand Patriarch of the Reading RR
Technical & Historical Society, and to be the Publisher of the quarterly
magazine of that highbrow, blue-blood organization.  In his spare time, he
paints rusty old passenger coaches at the Society's museum in Hamburg, Pa.

Saith the Cardinal:

"Coincidentally, in catching up on my reading, I just finished the Second
Quarter 2023 issue of the B&O Historical Society's "Sentinel" magazine
which had a feature article on the B&O's bulkhead flatcars used for
shipping wallboard.  This article focused on B&O shippers in southern
Indiana.  There were no color pictures, but it said the two largest
producers (as of mid-1950s) were U.S. Gypsum which favored bright red
sheeting with their name "U S Gypsum" in white in a repeating pattern,
while National Gypsum used red-orange sheeting with "Gold Bond Building
Products" in black lettering .  Other producers used black, white, or
transparent sheeting."

 -- abram-o  burnett-i
........Raconteur and Yarn-Spinner at...
............ the United Turnip Command, Factor 1-Alpha
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