I have a question about PRR passenger car paint schemes and I can't find much of anything online so I thought someone on here might have some information on this topic.
I'm modeling the PRR and NYC from about 1942-1944 and I'm wondering which passenger cars had olive trucks and when they transitioned from olive to black.
This is my understanding so far: what I've read is from the 1920s to 1939 the r50b cars had olive green trucks and boxcar red roofs. In '39 they painted the roofs black. Starting in '43 they painted the underframes and trucks tuscan red and in 1945 the underframes and trucks were painted black and stayed black until the '60s. I know select trains had passenger cars with olive underframes and trucks and the mp54 converted passenger cars had olive trucks and underframes. I also know its pretty hard to tell because of only having black and white photos to work with.
My questions are did all of the PRR's passenger cars have olive trucks and underframes until 1943? And if not all which ones did? Also is it true that the underframes and trucks of r50b's were painted tuscan in 1943? Did they do this to other cars as well?
