Laidoffsick posted:Its an FRA violation to paint couplers and/or drawbars, has been for years. For some reason Santa Fe got away with it back in the day.
Not just the Santa Fe:
Googling Burlington and WP passenger locomotives shows quite a few with painted couplers. While today painting couplers is verboten, if I would hazard to guess, silver paint might have been an exception back in the day.
Rusty