All the Brooklyn PCC photos you could possibly want

[daveklepper]

Maybe, but the story I remember is that the color was chosen to least show dirt and grime.

[Flintlock76]

OK, I can see the "Pachyderm Gray" a little better now.

"Pachyderm Gray."  That's an interesting color choice.  Was it chosen in remembrance of the tragic "Brooklyn Bridge Elephant Stampede" of 1929?  

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/staten-island-octopus-brooklyn-bridge-elephants-hoax-memorials  

[daveklepper]

This may be much clser to the truth:

[Flintlock76]

daveklepper

Not Olive-Drab, 

Pachyderm-Grey

 

 

Really?  I never would have guessed, it sure doesn't look like it.

I suppose this is a good example of why we shouldn't rely overmuch on color photography to determine vintage paint schemes.  

[daveklepper]

Not Olive-Drab, 

Pachyderm-Grey

 

[Flintlock76]

Must be the old military man in me, but I prefer the olive drab paint scheme.  Just looks more businesslike, you know?

[daveklepper]

A comparison of the original paint job, here the restoration at Shore Line Trolley and from the website, and the post-1948 scheme at the Coney Island Terminal:

[daveklepper]

A Seventh Avenue car on Flatbush Avenue passing a Flatbush Avenue sinngle-end Peter Witt (6200-series) in 1947: 

[daveklepper]

These rwo phoros were posted on the Trains Steam and Preservation Forum for 4573 preserved and frequently available for riding at the Shore Line Trolley Musum, but they also show PCC cars.  Both are at the Brooklyln Bridge terminql, Park Row, City Hall, Manhatetan:

[daveklepper]

Two I lacked time to post on Friday, in the later NYCTS post WWII green-and-silver paint, on what still might be Brooklyn's most beautiful street, Prospect Park West, the 7th Avenue line:

[daveklepper]

First, aluminum-Bodied, Clark Equipmemt Co.-constructed 1000, a replacewment for the original St. Louis-built 1000. diverted to Pittsbugh as a sample, operated as their 100.

I believe this car's body is at Kingston, NY, at the museum operation there.

On its regular McDonald=Vanderbilt run. passing a South Brooklyn freight headed by diesel No. 9:

St. Louis  - built 1001, preserved at Shore Line Trolley:

Williamsburg bridge, on and under:

ENY:

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At DeKalb Av. Shops: