[PRCo] Re: MUNI PAINT JOBS

[John F Bromley]

Funny, that's wehat I suggested yesterday, to a non-response.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ROGER Jenkins" <ROGERTROLLY at webtv.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 3:03 PM
Subject: [PRCo] MUNI PAINT JOBS


> 
> Thanks very much Peter Ehrlich  for getting us straight on the whys and
> wherefors of the PCC fleet colors .  Being so close to San Diego  and
> familiar with the San Diego Electric Ry. PCC s  why dosn't  Muni paint
> one of the Pittsburgh  PCCs in the San Diego colors ??  [cast my vote
> for this ]  I even have an O scale model  PCC painted in San Diego Elec.
> Ry  colors  complete with the adds they carried  for Balboa Park  and
> the other one that read  [ TOPS IN TRANSPORTATION COMFORT ]  which they
> were for years after .  The second vote for me would be for a DC TRANSIT
> scheme with orange and two tone green which was the prettiest colors I
> have seen on any transit vehicle . The worst color scheme today is that
> Breda car grey they want everyone to swallow ! What a dismal color that
> is even in Boston where the MBTA is painting the KINKI-SHARU cars to
> match .  BLAH AND DOUBLE BLAH
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