Penn Central Colors 1970?

Polar white???? Not sure it's a PC color!!!

The Penn Central colors are Dirt and Grime

Dave:

You are fine with that boxcar in the 1970 timeframe.  The red P / white C was an experimental paint scheme used by Penn Central on a small number of engines and boxcars at the outset of the merger.  Apparently someone high up didn't like it as it was not adopted as the official paint scheme.

Curt

Colors can be different shades of green especially if faded. Some former NYC cars just had the PC added.

I never seen that red / white PC logo in real trains. It was never appealing to me either.

I did a custom PC located somewhere on my link below. Probably in a video as well.

The road for the most part, has been scarce when modeled or MFG. in true "O".

I grew up in the PC era and remember the newly painted PC car arriving past Grasmere on Staten Island.

I know that Brooklyn guy Ben, hates that road, but what does he know anyway?

 

S.

 

Here's an early transition scheme of PC:

http://liherald.com/lynbrook/s...t-Swiss-Tavern,22861

Ralph

The hodgepodge nature of the real PC makes it fairly easy to model. Very simply, pretty much anything goes. The rolling stock was every shade of green and same for black motive power. Throw in period appropriate equipment from nearly any American railroad and wa-la, it's a PC train!

Here's the main link to my previous post.

The box car in my previous post is the bottom color photo.

http://pc.smellycat.com/pics/equip/boxcars.html

Ralph

Thank you,  Curt, SIRT, Ralph & Nick, great information and cool pictures from Ralph. It looks like they liked their trains heavily weathered LOL .