[PRCo] Re: 1700__Gray__Monitor???

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!

	I have been thinking along the same lines.   In the photo where I first
noticed this, it was winter with snow on the ground.   Charleroi 1718
outbound at West Library.   Thought it was due to the cold weather with the
thin metal of the fan monitor more exposed.   Also tricky light
reflection.   Thought about a fade to the primer color but it is so
uniform, esp. the photo mentioned below.

> John F Bromley wrote:

> I believe the car on P86 of Volkmer's #3 book is displaying a trick of the
> lighting, not gray.  I've never seen gray on a 1700 and I currently have
> quite a few of Volkmer's 1700 series slides here for scanning to his 2nd
> CD-ROM and, as those in my own collection, all are cream. Maybe the car on
> P86 is fading to the undercoat.  Certainly enough Pittsburgh cars had THAT
> paint (or lack thereof) problem.

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

>> And on pg.86 bottom of Volkmer's  *PA Trolleys in color V-3* we see 1795
>> in 1959 with a distinct gray  *tint*  to the fan monitor that I noticed on
>> a color photo of a Charleroi interurban.   Very subtle color!   But not
>> all photos reveal this of the cars when new, even color photos.  
>> B&W might not have been sensitive enough to distinguish the shade
>> difference.   The famous Baxter photo of 1734  *hints*  at the
>> gray but that is all that can be said - can't say definitely.

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