That pretty much describes an ice cream treat or the paint scheme of the Port Authority of Allegheny County’s two F7A’s that provided commuter service on Pittsburgh’s B&O Monongahela Valley line. Originally set up in 1975 using leased B&O RDC’s, PATrain acquired two rebuilt F7A’s to pull ex-C&O passenger cars. Originally built for the Southern Pacific, the F7’s had a second career on northern Pennsylvania’s Wellsville, Addison & Galeton. When the WAG folded its tents, GE rebuilt the EMD’s at Hornell, New York and sold them to PATrain, where they worked until the commuter service shut down in 1989. Seen here spending the night at Pittsburgh, this unit and its former WAG stablemate went to the Connecticut DOT, and have now been repatriated to the Southwest, residing in Texas and painted as ATSF 316/315.
