[PRCo] Re: "Yellow cars"

[Fred Schneider]

UNLIKE SOME OF PTMS EARLIER EFFORTS, THIS ONE COMES VERY CLOSE TO  
WHAT MY BIASED MEMORY TELLS ME IS PITTSBURGH RAILWAYS YELLOW.   It  
had a lot more yellow in it than the West Penn orange.   My mind also  
wants to remember that work cars had more orange than the low- 
floors.  But there are not too many of us old farts left to argue ...  
Ellis, Fred, maybe Dietrich, and maybe only a couple of us saw fresh  
paint.

On Nov 19, 2007, at 8:47 AM, Bob Dietrich wrote:

> Congratulations to Art.
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> But the first thing I noticed on cuzin Brucie's blog was the  
> announcement.
> Is all of Pittsburgh Color-blind or is it just PTM members?  Why is  
> that
> orange car called "yellow"?  I don't buy that it will "fade to  
> yellow", in
> 1930 it would fade to black-over-orange.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of  
> Fred
> Schneider
> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 9:03 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo]
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> Guess who set off the fire alarm and had to call the fire company to
> cancel it with all the candles on the birthday cake?   Why it was Art
> Ellis' 88th Birthday Party on Saturday night.   Take a look at his
> son-in-law's blog.   How many 88-year-olds have the ability to climb
> up on a guard rail to be photographed next to a Route 88 highway sign.
>
> Congratuations to Art Ellis.
>
> http://web.mac.com/cuzinbrucie/iWeb/G5/AroundtheMuseum.html
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