[PRCo] Re: Auctioned PCCs

[Fred W. Schneider III]

That would be rust?  Right?  Or maybe cream with red wearing off of it?  

I really think it would look really sharp in purple with medium blue
doors and window frames, a cadmium yellow belt rail, and yellow cat's
whiskers beside the headlight.  Trucks and trolley poles could be
fluorescent yellowish green. The trolley rope ... an electrically
conductive orange. Stepwells: a dull mud color (so the passenger cannot
see where his or her foot is going). 

Inside could be pink with white elephants dancing around.

The motorman will be dressed like Garfield the cat in fluorescent
orange. 

And it will run every day but one.  It will be shopped on Halloween.  An
orange bus called "The Great Pumpkin" will run that day.  

Barf.

Fred 

Jim Holland wrote:
> 
> 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
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