Old PRCo route numbers (was: Route 9, 8, PHB&NC)

[Vigrass, Bill]

You might have liked Cleveland Transit's World War II signs, evidently
invented to be simple:

"C'ntr'l THRU TO END OF LINE'".   It showed route and destination, sort of.

This was an old tradition with C. Ry. "Superior Through" to East 129th and
St. Clair in contrast to the regular short turn, "Superior E. 120th St."
which was Superior Station (car house).
My barber, the late, very late, Sam Sapolski, told me "I live by Superior
Through car".

Bill V.

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	From:  Donald Galt [SMTP:galtfd at att.net]
	Sent:  Thursday, November 11, 1999 5:47 AM
	To:  pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
	Subject:  Re: Old PRCo route numbers (was: Route 9, 8, PHB&NC)

	On 11 Nov 99, at 2:24, Jim Holland wrote:

	> I like the Vancouver method - two different numbers and route
names
	> which indicates the direction the transit vehicle is travelling on
one
	> line.  

	Vancouver renumbered in 1986 so that through routes now bear the
same 
	number in both directions.

	The really nice thing about Vancouver is that the numbers and
destinations 
	are BIG!

	Actually, the Pittsburgh practice has always seemed an aberration to
me - 
	hasn't it been more common for signs to indicate destinations? 

	WRT those old three-digit numbers: Ed indicated that, although
primarily for 
	internal use, they were also known to the public. So I'm wondering
just how 
	they touched the public.

	D2