[PRCo] Re: Auctioned PCCs

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!!

> Dietrich, Robert J. wrote:

> Just a little tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact that of all the paint
> schemes they have employed, MUNI has yet to paint a car in the livery of the
> second largest PCC user in the nation.

	This seemed to be by design  --  tried to find out why Pgh. was never
represented and I always got the runaround.

	The original  ({[pat]})  colors are actually representative of an
organization that was determined to *rid the city of the derogatory
reputation of the largest operating trolleycar museum in the country* 
(to use words of one  ({[pat]})  official of the 1960s as was quoted on
this list once before.)   The original  ({[pat]])  colors were actually
like death garments on cars doomed to destruction and elimination.

	The paint schemes from 1971--1972 forward are like the rebirth of rail
in Pgh. and would be better representations.

	Actually, with the acquisition of several Baby--Tens which had been
sent to Tahoe, PRCo paint has definitely been considered.

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James B. Holland

Holland  Electric  Railway  Operation
    "O"--Scale  St.-Petersburg Trams Company Trolleycars  &
        "O"--Scale  Parts  mailto:pghpcc at pacbell.net
        Pennsylvania Trolley Museum (PTM) http://www.pa-trolley.org/
    Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
N.M.R.A.  Life member #2190; http://www.mcs.net:80/~weyand/nmra/

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