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RE: (erielack) May Calendar Photo

I found the ERIE Magazine article.  It was from August 1960 titled:  "Diesels To Gleam Brighter Longer In Acrylic Finish".  11 PA's were painted with acrylic lacquer.  Pictures show the PA's being painted at the Marion shops.  The report states that the pain manufacturer (not named) approached Erie with samples and asked that it be tried on Erie locomotives.  Three PAs were painted in this report and 8 E8's were painted.  Thus the information you have is additional to this.  I suspect that these engines were the last in the experiment being painted just before the merger.  I could scan the article if you want it.

Ed Montgomery



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From: Schuyler Larrabee [mailto:schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net]
Sent: Fri 5/2/2008 5:56 PM
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Subject: RE: (erielack) May Calendar Photo
 


Ed, some time ago I  bought on eBay a file folder which has the data from the process of repainting
the PAs from B&Y to TTG,  They were all painted in Jersey City, as they were apparently used a good
deal in commuter service at that time.  One interesting thing is that contrary to what your note
says, they were using this as a test process for comparison of different brands of paint.  It's my
impression (I'll have to verify this) that they used almost as many brands of paint as there were
PAs.  There are a few notes about the survival of the paint, but not a comprehensive report.  It's
my intent to develop this information into a Diamond article or something similar.

SGL


> Reviewing the May picture, it appears that this PA had recently been repainted.  ERIE Magazine did
a story on this
> around '58 or '59 repainting the black and yellow PA's with the green tones.  They were using a
new type of paint that
> was expected to last about ten years.  I have the article stored away somewhere -- can't remember
the paint as I write
> this.  However, the PA was probably repainted G/N/Y within 5 or 6 years.
> 
> Ed Montgomery
> 
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