• Paint Schemes:
• Most cities had various paint schemes on their PCC cars over the years, we picked out the one for the following Cities we felt best represented the Paint Scheme that is the most well known.
• We are offering these cars two ways, first version is fully Decorated with appropriate colors, Car Number, and Transit system logo (if it was used on the car, some cities did not put a logo on all cars.)
• Note on Colors:
• Very few color photos exist from the late '30s and '40s. Many that exist have faded from true colors. Plus many of the paints used were lead or cadmium based which are now outlawed, so we have matched paint colors as close as we can from all the information available and taken into account photos taken in shade, cloudy days fading of paint colors due to exposure to the sun, etc.

A Railbus of some kind was to be found on just about every railroad, large and small. They usually had a "nickname" of some sort, adopted by the Road Crews as well as the Roundhouse "worker bees" who had to keep them running... some of these "nicknames" were not complimentary and can not be printed here ! On some roads they were just know as "Critters".

     On most roads there were one of a kind, built as an experiment ,usually by combining parts from other pieces of equipment on or near the railroad destined for the scrap yard, but someone would convince a Roundhouse foreman, or member of management that it would fulfill a useful purpose at low cost to the railroad.

     Most of these did not work out very well and wound up as part of the Maintenance of Way Dept, or, as "Railfanning" started to be popular after WW II used for Railfan Charters, or to take local groups such as the Rotary Club out to a State Park or to the Beaches.

    There was one major exception to this "rule" and that was the Rio Grande Southern in Colorado, that built the famous "Galloping Goose" so they could keep the mail contract they had with the Post Office, and yet not have to use a steam loco, cars, and a full crew for the travels up and down the 50 miles of trackage they had to service with mail. Eventually they actually had 7 "Galloping Gooses" all of similar, but not identical designs.

    A few railroads, such as the New Haven actually had some built brand new for service on branchlines where the passenger traffic was low and did not warrent running a locomotive, cars, and full train crew up and down the branch for a handful of passengers each day.

     So while we have actual photos of the New Haven units and the "Maintenance of Way" is based on a Railbus that is at the St. Louis Transportation Museum, the others are more of less "what could have been", but hey this is supposed to be a fun Hobby, if you like the idea then buy one and have some fun on your layout, or the club layout with it... it will be a "conversation" starter everytime you run it on the layout.