West Penn Today - The back Line

[Dietrich, Robert J.]

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 at 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 at supernet.com] 
Sent:	Sunday, July 09, 2000 7:34 PM
To:	pittsburgh-railways at 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