[PRCo] Re: Black on the PCCs

[Jim Holland]

> John F Bromley wrote:

> Oops, Jim, a boo-boo.  The 1630 in Cox's book on P53 is just very lightly
> exposed.  It's standard red.  I've seen this photo elsewhere with better
> reproduction, but you can tell even in the Cox book.

	I'll take that as a  *Maybe*,  John  --  I have 2- copies of this book,
one an original printing.  The rest of the photo seems to be properly
exposed, the anticlimber appears to be painted and there is no contrast
between the anticlimber and the  *supposedly*  red dash and red skirting
below the anticlimber, and it is not at all possible to discern that the
car is red anywhere - the contrast is not there.  The dash, anticlimber,
and skirting all appear identical in the Cox reproduced photo.  Also,
the brick building behind the car is nicely exposed as is the track  -- 
maybe a red-filter was used when the photo was exposed.
	And please note that I said, and I quote below:::::::   "...car 1630
was painted what appears to be an all cream--color"  --  never said
definitely that it was!(:->)

>> From: "Jim Holland" <pghpcc at pacbell.net>

>> . . . and car 1630 was painted what appears to be an all
>> cream--color at St.-Louis-Car (pg.53 of Harold Cox' book  *PCC Cars of
>> North America.*)
>> Super interesting to note is the striping on 1630 when all-cream  --
>> green line along top molding (which would be between cream roof and red
>> above windows IF it was red!), green line on lower molding of belt rail,
>> and green line at rub rail at floor level.!

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