West Penn Destination Signs

[Fred W. Schneider III]

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.

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?  You can be damn sure that is rhetoric.

Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> 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?
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