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railway express truck
Posted: January 4th, 2018, 3:11 pm
by davedd
I have a complete org 1928 AA railway express truck (all painted red on the undercarage, anyone have info or pictures of these trucks?
Re: railway express truck
Posted: January 4th, 2018, 7:23 pm
by Chris Haynes
Re: railway express truck
Posted: January 5th, 2018, 7:55 am
by davedd
that's like my truck ,mine has wire wheels and ford script flat bed ,wheels and everything under the truck painted red
Re: railway express truck
Posted: January 5th, 2018, 1:09 pm
by Stakebed
Anyone know why they were painted red?
Re: railway express truck
Posted: January 5th, 2018, 1:37 pm
by Chris Haynes
Company Trademark. Why are UPS trucks Brown?
Re: railway express truck
Posted: January 5th, 2018, 2:42 pm
by Stakebed
i get that but it seems like it would be a massive pain, time, cost to do that. Is that link with pics exactly what they did? Or someone got a link to a correctly painted one?
Re: railway express truck
Posted: January 5th, 2018, 4:16 pm
by Neil Wilson
Stakebed wrote: ↑January 5th, 2018, 2:42 pm
i get that but it seems like it would be a massive pain, time, cost to do that.
My guess is that they ordered the frame painted via the Ford factory.
Re: railway express truck
Posted: January 5th, 2018, 5:00 pm
by davedd
yes factory painted