Pennsylvania stripes

[Anonymous]

I purchased an older Williams F7 diesel pair in the Tunstan color and it does not have the gold stripes. It has Pennsylvania in gold on the bottom left and right of the engines with the Pennsy logo above the lettering. Were some of the Pennsy diesels painted in that type of paint scheme?

[chuck]

It should have had some kind of striping, either 5 "cat's whiskers" or a single broad stripe.

http://kc.pennsyrr.com/motiveops/pass_paint.ws4d

[Anonymous]

Could this paint scheme be for freight operation?

[jefelectric]

I don't know the answer, but here are a few sites to do some research.

http://www.prrths.com/PRR_Default.html

http://www.yesteryeardepot.com/pennsyr.htm

http://prr.railfan.net/

May take a little time but one of these should give you an answer.

[jefelectric]

I've been doing a little research and haven't found any stripe less F7s so far.

http://www.prrths.com/PRR%20F7%20Warsaw%20IN.html

Have found 5 stripe and one stripe, but no zero stripe.

[Buckeye Riveter]

John,

The photo you linked to was the train that I rode as a kid to the east coast from Indiana.  After it stopped at Warsaw, it headed east to Fort Wayne, where we boarded.   I do not remember engines without stripes, but they were always very dirty. 

Amtrak in later years bypassed Warsaw due to the track conditions.  The area is full of peat bogs.  The freights still run, but no Amtrak service for Fort Wayne.  Amtrak crosses Northern Indiana on the old NYC tracks.

Here is a great web site for photos:  http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=162146