[From nobody Mon Jan 14 08:18:03 2013 Received: from mailsorter-101-11.iap.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.45) by storefull-617.iap.bryant.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 06:22:29 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <shadow+bounces@dementia.org> Received: from alycia.dementia.org (ALYCIA.DEMENTIA.ORG [128.2.35.149]) by mailsorter-101-11.iap.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8-wtv-f/ms.dwm.v7+dul2) with ESMTP id GAA20111; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 06:22:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alycia.dementia.org (8.9.1a/8.9.0) id JAA15013 for pittsburgh-railways-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 09:22:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail015.mail.onemain.com (SMTP-OUT001.ONEMAIN.COM [63.208.208.71]) by alycia.dementia.org (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with SMTP id JAA15009 for <pittsburgh-railways@dementia.org>; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 09:22:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 9011 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2000 13:21:38 -0000 Received: from 25-1.pm4-2.lancaster.supernet.com (HELO supernet.com) ([64.41.25.1]) (envelope-sender <fschnei@supernet.com>) by us015.mail.onemain.com (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for <pittsburgh-railways@dementia.org>; 10 Jul 2000 13:21:38 -0000 Message-ID: <3969CCED.F75610C5@supernet.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 09:17:34 -0400 From: "Fred W. Schneider III" <fschnei@supernet.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pittsburgh-railways@dementia.org Subject: Re: West Penn Today - The back Line References: <928B5F051DF0D211862C00104B2AFD88315292@bb-exchange-1.bb.unisys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-pittsburgh-railways@dementia.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways@dementia.org I think I did ask you for a set of White on Red mainline signs when we were meeting in your basement.... And by the way folks, you should see the absolutely beautifully painted West Penn (one-man) 700 that Bob has ... weathered so it looks like the company ran them at the end ... a horrid mixture of badly faded orange paint, rust, and coal dirt. You ought to put a good picture of that car on line Bob and take credit for your superb paint job. Fred Schneider 111 Delp Road 17601-3905 "Dietrich, Robert J." wrote: > BTW when oainting my West Penn 700 car I made destination and advertising > sign decals. If you have one (a 700 car) and no destination sign let me > know (bob.Dietrich@unisys.com) and I'll send you one or two sets. If demand > is high it may take me awhile to respond - after a trip to the copy center. > > Fred: Yours are reserved. > > Bob > > -----Original Message----- > From: Fred W. Schneider III [mailto:fschnei@supernet.com] > Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 7:34 PM > To: pittsburgh-railways@dementia.org > Subject: Re: West Penn Today - The back Line > > The signs? > Mainline was white on red. > Phillips was white on blue > South Connellsville, Brownsville, Trafford-Irwin-Greensburg were white on > black > Latrobe was white on green > Uniontown-Phillips-Connellsville was white on very dark blue (looks like > black in > slides). > Martin was red on yellow > Fairchance was black on yellow. > I think Dickerson Run was black or red on yellow. > I think the two signs on the Aspinwall - Tarentum routes were white on blue > and > white on red, but > there was no color film then and the last person we knew that rode them > was > Charlie Dengler and > when we asked him, his memory was all pooped out. The 800s had a > different > size sign than any > of the other cars ... so maybe when 832 is restored, some one will sand > down > through the layers > paint on the museum collection of signs and find what Tarentum signs were > at > the bottom layer! > I have no idea what was used for Boston Bridge or McKeesport-Irwin-Trafford. > Most of the McKeesport city routes in later years had roll signs. Maybe > Dennis > Creamer can tell us that he found out what was on the Kittanning and > Leechburg > lines ]