[PRR-talk] [PRR-FAX] PRR Lines West structure colors 101

[ricktipton]

Pat,

 

I think your message (below) may validate my comment that structure paint
schemes may be a function of both date and geography.  For example, my
PERSONAL experience with PRR building paint was pretty simple:

 

1. When I started looking and photographing systematically in 1970, almost
everything (stations, towers, crossing shacks, section sheds) in my part of
Ohio was light umber and dark umber.  Even brick buildings would have dark
umber on wood windowframes, doorframes, and trim.  Wood doors were either
all dark tint, or had light tint panel in them.  One exception -- some relay
cases and telephone boxes (the kind mounted on a pole) were silver --
perhaps aping the many metal relay cases on the property.

 

2. The only red window sashes visible in my neck of the woods were on
restored buildings.  I can't document one case of a "working" building that
hadn't been simplified to dark tint.  I wonder if red sashes in the modern
era wasn't a holdover that survived in the east -- but I don't remember
seeing any of it on my trips east in 1972, 1974, 1976, ... 1984.

 

3. If I saw a building in Ohio in light gray (with or without dark gray
trim), I knew I was looking at DT&I, C&O, etc. structures.

 

4. When PC repainted, a structure got one of two treatments:  a) most
buildings got white with meadow green/harbor green/grass green trim  b) some
earlier repaints (especially sheds and less-exalted stuff) got all-over jade
green, which obviously was left over from NYC-boxcar-painting days.

 

5. Then Conrail came in with their (as you say, "nice") light gray with dark
gray trim.  I imagine that the fresh paint was really welcome to the guys
who spent the years of their lives working on the property.

 

PS - still homebound and limited by doc's orders in what I can do.  Not
feeling that bad, though.

 

Rick Tipton -- Louisville Kentucky
ricktipton at bellsouth.net
Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society
Remembering PRR Lines West

 

 

 

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Subject: Re: [PRR-FAX] PRR Lines West structure colors 101

Rick,

         Missed seeing your responses on some PRR posts that I thought you
would have had some input. Sorry to hear that you had some hospital stay but
sure glad to here you are doing well. Came close  myself to visting the same
kind of facility in Jan.  CHEERS,here is to a better remaining 2008.

  There seemed to be the light gray structure and dark gray trim with red
window treatment in the 1950's and very early 1960's as they went to the
light buff structure and dark brown trim with the red window trim in the
early 60's up to PC and then some went back to the light gray structure and
dack gray trim without the red window treatment if they didn't get the green
treatment. It was nice to see the light gray structure and dark gray trim
during Conrail as those wooden buildings seemed to return to a PRR era in
time before they all started to disappear.

 

Pat McKinney 





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