PRCo Colors

Jim Holland pghpcc at pacbell.net
Mon May 3 04:34:32 EDT 1999


Greetings,

	After a nice discussion about WP colors, how about PRCo.

	I understand the 3700-3714 & 3800-3814 series interurbans were painted red, gray, and black.  
What were the shades of red and gray (black was used for the roof, wasn't it?  Someone had thought it 
might have been a dark brown.)

	What was the shade of *yellow* used on the Jones cars?

	What was the original shade of red on the PCC cars?  According to some color photos from about 
1950 and the famous PTM postcard of 1734 when new (by John Baxter), the red looks just one or two 
steps away from being orange!
-- 
James B. Holland
	PITTSBURGH  RAILWAYS  COMPANY  (PRCo),  June of 1950  --  June of 1953
		Pennsylvania Trolley Museum (PTM) member #273
			National Model Railroad Association (NMRA) Life member #2190



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