West Penn Destination Signs

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> We know West Penn was cost-conscious.  Over the weekend, I located another
> handful of their destination signs in storage, and some of these fit the
> 800s.  Two were Coke Region signs painted over Allegheny Valley panels.  Now
> we know they were just plain cheap!
> 
> Now here's the curator's dilemma:  one of the repaints is a Baggaley tripper
> sign in red.  I want to know the original AV colors (there is one of each
> sign).  How much do I remove from the rare Baggaley sign to find out?!
> Anyone want to bet we'll find they were red and black, respectively?

The problem is the sort of x-ray things you could do to see through old
layers of paint isn't particularly useful to see what the colors are.

Not that it's really worth it for something like this.

Of course for some twisted reason I can anyhow. 

-D
-what free time?