[PRCo] Re: TAN --BOSTON PCC's in WW2

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!

	Thanks, Roger   ---   that all sounds quite familiar now   ---   seem to
recall reading this somewhere.

	Then it sounds reasonable that PRCo 12s and maybe 14s had similar paint as
seen in the  *PCC--Trilogy*  Video  --  even B&W photos show the trolley
cowling to be darker.

> ROGER Jenkins wrote:

> YUP you are right Jim. Boston PCCs had their roofs painted a buff color
> when delivered during the war as a Civil Defense "camouflage"  and
> were dubbed  "tan tops."   #3022-3071  were constructed during the last
> two years of the war under a  War Production Board order.   Cars
> #3001-3021 were produced before the war in 1941 but also had their roofs
> re-painted buff like the others by Boston Elevated Ry.

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