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@GG1 4877 posted:

I've never seen a photograph of a P5a box cab with a maroon roof.  In general the use of maroon on cab roofs on PRR locomotives during the steam era is greatly exaggerated in the modeling world.  Then again to be fair, color photographs of P5s in general are not very common especially early in their careers.



I think your final point would be the telling one here. If they did have the maroon roofs, it was in the early 30's, and there weren't a lot of folks running around with color film yet.

The Keystone Modeler, put out by the PRR Technical & Historical Society, usually points out inaccuracies in models they review, and yet in 2 articles about BLI's P5a model, no complaints are lodged about the ones with maroon roofs. Could be an oversite, could be they don't know, or they could be correct. They (BLI) did have both early passenger (with steam generator stack) and freight (without) models, both with the maroon roofs (as well as later, all DGLE versions).

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