Paint

[Fred W. Schneider III]

They did standardize on Dupont by the late 1930s.  No specific paint stock numbers mentioned.  Actually this was a paint and overhaul book ... told when cars came in for major overhaul and paint.  In 1949 Pittsburgh Railways changed
the codes used in the book to identify how much of the car had been painted; I can only assume that code 1 was always a complete paint job.  I think that, by 1933, the paint and overhaul book probably had become only a record of car
painting because overhauls had, by then, been changed from calendar to mileage based.   This means, of course, that trailers and the remaining wooden cars and some maintenance cars such as sweepers would have visited car shops at
very infrequent intervals while yellow cars and later PCCs would be in the shops much more often because they were used in base service and accumulated many more miles.

Edward G Skuchas wrote:

> Thank you for sending the paint information.  It was worth the wait to obtain the information.
>
> I guess what I heard was the PRCO somewhat standardized on the DuPont paint later in time.
>
> I suspect the model builders like me would want to build the: Low floor Jones cars, non PCC interurbans and the "high floor" cars.  Was there any mention of the color or "manufacturer's paint color" for these specific car types?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Edward G. Skuchas, P.E.
> Senior Mechanical Engineer
> Parsons Energy & Chemicals Group, Inc.
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