[PRCo] Re: "Yellow cars"

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Actually, PAT did not paint the car in 1976.  They recovered the seats and
made roof repairs, primarily.  The paint that is on the car has two origins:
from basically the front doors back, it dates from the last major shop visit
in 1951 (I believe, but it can be checked in the paint book), while the
front of the car was painted in the early 1970s upon completion of
rebuilding after an "oops" in the mid-'60s.

Ed

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[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Herb
Brannon
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 5:33 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: "Yellow cars"


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