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Re: The ''New'' MTA paint scheme was the best ever,agree or disagree ?! |
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Posted by randyo on Wed Sep 17 17:25:35 2008, in response to Re: The ''New'' MTA paint scheme was the best ever,agree or disagree ?!, posted by Neil Feldman on Wed Sep 17 14:55:27 2008. Just as an aside, has anyone out there ever seen the North Shore Line's "silverliners?" These were standard North shore interurban cars that were painted silver below the window line with "ribbing" painted into the silver paint to simulate the corrugation of genuine stainless steel. The optical illusion was so effective, that tou could not tell the difference betwwen the paint and real stainless until yo were almost close enough to touch the car. These cars were repainted to be used by the North Shore as replacements for the Electroliner in the event one of the Electroliners had to be taken out of service for repairs or maintenance. What I would have done, if I were TA pres, with the GOH steel cars would have been tp paint them in a simulates stainless steel finish, retrofit those cars not already equipped with vent windows like some of the redbirds got, air conditioned the R-27s/30s and provided a fleet of standard (pre R-40) design of R-27s through 38s full compatible with each other so that if the had to operate in mixed trains they would look relatively good together mich like PATH. On the IRT trains of faux stainless steel cars would have also looked pleasing to the eye as well. What I'm actually describing in essence is an MTA paint scheme sans the blue stripe. On the other hand, if the graffiti epidemic had not taken hold and the MTA silver/blue paint scheme had not been ruined, then I would have opted for painting the blue stripe on all the TA's subway equipment including the R-32s through slant 40s. I still would have opted for all GOH cars to be fully operable in mixed trains should the need arise. |
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