Re: PC: PC MOW equipment colors

[Stephen Vargo <anthrax2525@xxxxxxxxx>]

 The Pennsy Freight Car C.G. has work cars in both lemon and battleship tones into the Penn Central era.

 At least for Pennsy, if the car number was a 496-series, it was company service.

Jerry Jordak <jer -AT- smellycat.com> wrote:

> Bjorn890@aol.com wrote:
>
> > However, back on the maintenance side of 
> > things...did PC then paint the majority of maintenance equipment yellow?
>
> Yes, for the most part, although with PC, nothing is ever set in stone!
>
> Many covered hoppers that were used in sand service (see the photos on 
> my web site) wore PC green paint, but carried a 5-digit number and often 
> had an "S" in a square (a throwback to the PRR's designation for 
> "stores" service). There probably was some MOW equipment that was 
> painted in other colors too.
>
> PRR had been painting their!
>  MOW
>  equipment in "camp car yellow" since the 
> mid 1950s. Before that, PRR used gray for MOW, and I'm guessing though 
> that there was probably some PRR MOW equipment that survived to the PC 
> in gray. (Can anyone confirm/deny that?)
>
> NYC originally used brown for MOW equipment, although the NYC Color 
> Guide book shows also some later pictures of MOW equipment in Century 
> Green as well. I'm guessing some of that NYC MOW equipment lasted a 
> while into PC in green.
>
> I can't speak for how the NH painted their MOW equipment.
>
> -JWJ

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