@bigtruckpete posted:That stinks.
I just had a MPC U36 lose a truck side due to this. You just never know...
That's the "fun" part of Zinc pest, you never know what will set it off or when it will happen. A friend had a Lionel Torpedo steamer, pre-war IIRC, that looked perfect when he purchased it around 1990. Within a year it began to expand and a few months later was reduced to crumbling pieces.