Here is a postal card entitled "Fade To Black." No Postmark. The photographer is not identified. Caption On Reverse: "Pennsylvania Railroad passenger E8 #4255 wears the final tuscan red simple paint scheme just before the railroad merged into Penn-Central (1968) and tuscan red units were repainted black. The large PC-style numbers toward the rear are the tip-off." #4255 is an EP-22 built by GM-EMD as number "5795" in June of 1952, rated at 2,250 horsepower, and renumbered "4255" in preparation for the merger. |