PC: PC Black?

["Garrett Rea" <Garrett.Rea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I do not want to start the whole Black/DLGE debate again, but this came from
Dear-old-Dad and PRR talk...

Garrett Rea

>><< I have always heard, and even seen reference to in a book somewhere
>that
>>some
>> of the first PC engines were painted with left over DGLE from the PRR.
>>

>I too was fooled and I WORKED for the PC!  I used to give out babyfood
>jars
>of Brunswick Green paint to the modellers who were not believers.  I
>remember when the first PC GE units rolled out of Erie in March or April
>of
>1968 (I remember the snow was still flying when they were delivered) they
>sure looked BLACK to me but while they were still new and given a little
>sun
>light, and putting your eyeball right next to the unit, you could see a
>HINT
>of green.  But THAT's ALL IT WAS, a HINT.
>
>Bill V.