[PRCo] Re: "Yellow cars"

[Herb Brannon]

The work cars (Line Car - Weed Sprayer - Crane Car - Dump Car - some active, some inactive) at South Hills Jct were painted the same color as the low floor passengers. That color was orange, the same color as those little round things used for obtaining orange juice which hang on trees in Claifornia and Florida. When PATransit did some work to the low floor passenger car owned by PTM and actually used it in passenger service for the Bicentenial Celebration in 1976 they painted it, according to the SHJct shop foreman, in the PRCo colors and that was mostly orange, again like the round things on the trees in sub-tropical areas of the US. I'm with you, Bob..................it's orange.
Bob Dietrich <bdietrich at comcast.net> wrote:  Not to belabor the point but 4398 in the shop looks orange to me. I went to
the LeRoy King Book Pennsylvania Trolleys Volume IV, the 40s, and found
several pictures of low-floor cars on pages 120-123. These had many years
to fade and they all look like dirty faded orange, not yellow. I even got
an unbiased opinion from my wife, who is never wrong, and she agreed -
orange. The Wilkes Barre car on page 77 is yellow. 

I still contend that the PRCo low-floor cars were orange - 

Herb Brannon