[PRCo] Re: Cleveland PCC colors

[Herb Brannon]

I'm on it. Just got back from an evening test run on the Cuy. Valley
Railroad. The railroad got gov't money to test commuter service between
Akron and Cleveland. So, let me fire up the scanner and I will post two
color pics. One of a Pullman-Standard (the best photo and also the best PCCs
in Cleveland) and one of a St. Louis Car Co PCC. The St Louis photo must
have been taken with some "box" type camera as it is not real sharp. You
can, however, see that each group of PCCs were painted slightly different.
Give me a few minutes to get things sent.
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 23:06, richard allman <allmanr at verizon.net> wrote:

> I want this to get to Herb Brannon-I am helping out George Huckaby of
> Customtraxx and he in turn is working w/ Bowser Manufacturing to build an HO
> model of the Cleveland PCC's-the ex-Louisville St Louis series, which per
> Bill Vigrass were the best cars CTS ever had. I don't mean to stir that
> dispute, but what we need are the exact colors of the cars in that very busy
> two tone tan-or was it two tone yellow-or was it two tone orange?! Bob
> Dietrich and I have been matching paint stirrers w/ model paint to the photo
> in the CERA book Remember When on page 53 and to color prints of the St.
> Petersburg model of the Pullman cars  w/  that presumably had the same paint
> colors but coming close is a challenge. And then assuming that the colors
> St. Petersburg Collection got-presumably they are correct, but... Then
> matching colors to photographs is tough, since photo reproduction is not
> consistent, so you see the dilemma. What we want to give George is a good
> faith likeness of the colors,!
>  preferably close to what the real colors were that would satisfy the
> purists among the modelers and not be outrageously off the mark, and
> preferably be close to an available model paint -either solvent based or
> acrylic. The cream from the roof we got, but the others-such a to-do! Model
> manufacturing per George is not what it was-now the manufacturer makes a
> computer-generated 3-D rendering, applies the colors, sends the image to
> China, and presto-chango, a few months later a painted shell prototype
> arrives. Thanks Herb and apologies to all for a somewhat off-message
> message. I simply dould not find Herb's email in my address book, but Bob D.
> suggested you and it seems a good idea!
> RICH
>
>


-- 
Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park