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On plastic, there are few options that will remove the stripe without altering the underlying paint. You may get lucky with Testors Easy Lift off. In most cases it will lift the lettering or in this case the stripe well before it begins to attack the underlying paint. What differs from car to car is how much of the residue can be removed without leaving a stain. Its worth a try. I would try to have a good match for the underlying paint in any case as odds some touch up may be required either to fix the sanding marks or the residue.

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Cut a paper towel a bit larger than what you want to remove, saturate the paper towel with Walthers Solvaset and wait about 45 minutes. Make sure the paper towel stays wet. You may have to reapply. You can sometimes work off stripes with just a fingernail. Otherwise, I like wooden toothpicks.  Have a bunch handy because they’ll saturate and become squishy enough to no longer scrape.  I like to move the toothpick on an angle with a pencil eraser motion. Once you get it 90% off or better you can get the remainder with some paper towel soaked in solvaset and just burnish it off. 
no matter what you do, it will leave a different sheen behind. 
Rinse the whole shell. Let dry and re-clearcoat. 

That’s the “gentlest” way I know to do it. It’ll take lionel lettering off easily. If it doesn’t do anything, move on to ELO. I would sand it as a last resort, it’s too easy to burn thru the base color. 

Thank you all for your pointers. CAPPilot, I do not recommend my wet scrape method to remove the stripes. I did not use anything but soapy water and a razor blade to gently scrape the stripe. It was not terribly invasive for my project but there was defintely a color difference more noticeable in some areas. I tried some chalk and it was just ok.  No definite plan in mind yet, just some simple ideas for now. 

For what it's worth, I will post a pic of the results.  

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IMG_20200613_150142IMG_20200613_161146Update on removing stripes: I finally found a product that states that it removes decals. Microset. It states that it will not work on clear coated surfaces. I applied it to the stripes and there was not discernible evidence that it was lifting the stripes. I still had to back scrape the decal carefully to remove the stripes. By keeping the area wet the process left less color change. It was less tedious but working around the rivets was still time consuming. The top photo is first side in progress, and the second is obvious. 

I previously finished removing stripes from K-line Baggage car as well as my first RPO experiment.

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