This is the Despatch Shops Inc. switcher during the Penn Central era. The car shop was closed a few years after the merger.
The shop Foreman was talked into the paint job by a my railfan buddy and fellow and RIT student Jim. Jim coined the phrase “13D paint job” describing the depressing paint schemes of the era. He had 13 word all starting with the letter “D”. “Dark, depressing, dull, dingy, etc.
This photo I found on the Internet, I have slides I took back in the ‘60s, but I don’t have them on my computer and not sure exactly where the are.
MTH did a Railking model a few years ago.
