West Penn Today - The back Line

[Fred W. Schneider III]

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 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