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Ed: I just reread your original note. Which is more rare today,
a Latrobe- Baggeley tripper sign or a Valley route sign? I'll wager
that some railfan out there has a 700 size steel sign plate for Baggaley.
But, sure as God made green apples, there aren't a whole lot of 800 car
sign plates around. So you sand the edges to find the color.
Repaint as a Baggley sign. The buy new steel plate and angle to make
new Valley Route signs. But I suspect your question was rhetoric
in the first place.
<p>By the way, Microsoft, of course, doesn't have Latrobe in its spell
check. I wonder if the makers of Rolling Rock beer know that the
closest word in spell check to Latrobe is Latrine? <b>You can be
damn sure that is rhetoric.</b><b></b>
<p>Derrick J Brashear wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:
<p>> We know West Penn was cost-conscious. Over the weekend, I located
another
<br>> handful of their destination signs in storage, and some of these
fit the
<br>> 800s. Two were Coke Region signs painted over Allegheny Valley
panels. Now
<br>> we know they were just plain cheap!
<br>>
<br>> Now here's the curator's dilemma: one of the repaints is a
Baggaley tripper
<br>> sign in red. I want to know the original AV colors (there is
one of each
<br>> sign). How much do I remove from the rare Baggaley sign to
find out?!
<br>> Anyone want to bet we'll find they were red and black, respectively?
<p>The problem is the sort of x-ray things you could do to see through
old
<br>layers of paint isn't particularly useful to see what the colors are.
<p>Not that it's really worth it for something like this.
<p>Of course for some twisted reason I can anyhow.
<p>-D
<br>-what free time?</blockquote>
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