Car stops

[Fred W. Schneider III]

Long before my time.....   fws

"Dietrich, Robert J." wrote:

> These multiple cars signs were everywhere that more than one car could get
> to a stop at the same time.  I leafed through Volkner's color book and found
> at least a dozen pictures with them, downtown, East Liberty, North Side, and
> of course South Hills Junction.  All the car stop signs were black text on
> white background, no white on black.  I also noticed on a couple pictures a
> small orangeish sign that appeared to have only one letter.  Does anyone
> know what they were for?
>
> While on the subject, in the early overhead shot of the tunnel --
> http://www.voicenet.com/~dietrich/SHJ/oldover.htm -- there is a dark
> rectangle over the crossing.  It appears to be a sign hanging from the
> overhead, does anyone know what was on it?
>
> Bob
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From:   Kenneth and Tracie Josephson [mailto:kjosephson at sprintmail.com]
> Sent:   Thursday, May 18, 2000 2:40 PM
> To:     pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject:        Re: Car stops
>
> I remember "First Car", "Second Car" and "Third Car" rectangular signs at
> the south
> end of the Smithfield Street Bridge, north of Carson Street. Ken J.