CP runningboards

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Hi,I´m Christian from Germany,

can somebody tell me what look the surface of the Canadian Pacific runningboards on late built steam engines(comepare to the of PSC). You can see they on no. 5931 or 5935 T1c/both are museal.

Thanks forward!

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Black painted steel. No texture on the running boards.