08-20-2009, 06:57 PM
[quote="nkp_174"]But they weren't red...they were brown! Yep yep! A very reddish brown! 
Funny, the red under all of the yellow and green on our P&LE caboose is almost a Regal red. My old boss, who happened to be a trainmaster on the P&LE told me the Steel cabs were red. I once saw a color photo taken at an event in station square in 1959 and the Caboose was Red, not Brown. The only color pictures of P&LE cabs that I have are paintings by railroad artists so I won't go farther with this, but the paint evidence on our caboose is enough to convince me.
Charlie
Funny, the red under all of the yellow and green on our P&LE caboose is almost a Regal red. My old boss, who happened to be a trainmaster on the P&LE told me the Steel cabs were red. I once saw a color photo taken at an event in station square in 1959 and the Caboose was Red, not Brown. The only color pictures of P&LE cabs that I have are paintings by railroad artists so I won't go farther with this, but the paint evidence on our caboose is enough to convince me.
Charlie