New "Yellow" Streetcar

PacificNW · #1 Posted: **Jan 23, 2007, 4:12 AM**

From the KGW8 Website:

tworivers · #2 Posted: **Jan 23, 2007, 4:25 AM**

I hope they've changed the upholstery. Even a flat color would do after the awfulness of that pattern in the old cars.

Dougall5505 · #3 Posted: **Jan 23, 2007, 4:29 AM**

awesome color i hope they have a stop requestor similar to trimet buses. its stupid how the streetcar driver can't go if someone is accidently leaning on that stupid yellow strip. and its always some kid with headphones on so he doesn't hear the car driver's announcement. has this happened to anyone else?

tworivers · #4 Posted: **Jan 23, 2007, 4:32 AM**

^^^ No, but that's funny.

I'm ready for a pink and black Oregon-made streetcar. That would be hot shit.

Dougall5505 · #5 Posted: **Jan 23, 2007, 4:36 AM**

^no joke. it would be awesome if every streetcar had a different color, actually it should be lit up and as it changes districts it will change colors. red=chinatown, green=west end etc. probably impossible but it would be cool.
and i just watched the video on kgw.com and it looks like the seats are the same. the seats should match the streetcar color!

zilfondel · #6 Posted: **Jan 23, 2007, 4:37 AM**

Umm, that's actually "apple green"

sorry bud!

Dougall5505 · #7 Posted: **Jan 23, 2007, 4:40 AM**

wow i thought it was yellow too my eyes are failing me

James Bond Agent 007 · #8 Posted: **Jan 23, 2007, 4:43 AM**

Hmmm.

zilfondel · #9 Posted: **Jan 23, 2007, 4:52 AM**

The KGW pic is a still captured from video... not too great. This might be better:

label of photo: Blue and Apple Green

From PortlandTransport.com

PacificNW · #10 Posted: **Jan 23, 2007, 5:02 AM**

Yeah, they do call it Apple Green....my bad..

pdxstreetcar · #11 Posted: **Jan 23, 2007, 5:13 AM**

very cool

for some reason these got delayed several months, i believe they were supposed to arrive in the late summer

i didnt realize just how different they are from the original cars particularly the front ends

mSeattle · #12 Posted: **Jan 23, 2007, 5:22 AM**

Can't miss'em when looking at the side.

I hink all apple green would look nicer or a sky blue front like the stripe on the passenger cars.

James Bond Agent 007 · #13 Posted: **Jan 23, 2007, 5:32 AM**

Anyone besides me see the similarities?

Dougall5505 · #14 Posted: **Jan 23, 2007, 5:34 AM**

sorry but no

pdxstreetcar · #15 Posted: **Jan 23, 2007, 5:49 AM**

not really but these apple green cars are the same color that fire engines were painted 25 years ago when they thought people would see them better at night.

der Reisender · #16 Posted: **Jan 23, 2007, 6:50 AM**

how soon till the new cars start running?

Dougall5505 · #17 Posted: **Jan 23, 2007, 2:12 PM**

the video said spring

asher519 · #18 Posted: **Jan 23, 2007, 6:31 PM**

In the video, Sam Adams also said that the colors of future streetcars will be even wilder, so maybe a pink and black train isn't out of the question

65MAX · #19 Posted: **Jan 23, 2007, 7:32 PM**

Yellow is one of the new colors, I saw pics of the apple green/yellow combo a few months back. It was being tested in the Czech Rep.

zilfondel · #20 Posted: **Jan 24, 2007, 12:14 AM**

I just want quadrouple-articulated cars. Riding the streetcar from SOWA to PSU today at 3pm was standing room only. =P