Who's in charge now

[Fred W. Schneider III]

Thankfully, not every organization brushes off their heritage in quite the
same way.  The Capital Area Transit Authority (CAT) in Harrisburg absorbed
Harrisburg Railways Company (and Valley Transportation Co.) back in the
1970s.  The HRy garage had been built by the Central Pennsylvania Traction
Co., the raised letters C P T or C P T Co and the date of the carbarn were
mounted above the office building.  They're still there, only CAT emphasizes
them by painting the letters black on a white background.  It its own way it
proclaims that "we're not afraid of our heritage."

brathke at juno.com wrote:

> After sending my comments on PAT making PRC a non-entity, I had some
> additional thoughts:
>
> Some might say that PAT was eradicating vestiges of PRC for legal
> reasons, but there are plenty of examples of old buildings (especially
> banks) downtown that retained their old names on the facades after new
> owners took over.  We can be thankful that Penn Central, and later
> Conrail, didn't find it necessary - or have the money - to remove the
> stone  references to "PRR" at Union Station.
>
> In its rush to "take off the old, and get on the new" after 3/1/64, PAT
> sometimes got a bit heavy handed.  Partly, I believe, to create a new
> image for the public, but also to show the former PRC employees that a
> new organization was now in charge and things were going to be different.
>
> Early on the morning of March 1, 1964 I recall being surprised to see
> white, "PAAC owner..." stickers on the sides of EVERY trolley and bus in
> service.  How many people did it take to get all those strickers on the
> equipment in a matter of hours after the Midnight takeover?
>
> Bob 10/3
>
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>
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2000 00:30:56 EDT HRBran99 at aol.com writes:
> > In a message dated 10/3/00 12:01:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > brathke at juno.com writes:
> >
> > << PAT went to a lot of trouble to revise a sign
> >  on a building that would be town down in less than two years.  >>
> >
> > They did the same with Glenwood Car House. Also, the transfers had
> > the word
> > "Co." removed from the Pittsburgh Railways Co. name prior to PAT
> > transfers
> > being used.
> >
> > Also, after Ross Garage was finished and opened (on the site of
> > Keating CH)
> > it was common the hear operators talk about being called into the
> > superintendents office for "re-instruction" if they were overheard
> > using the
> > name "Keating" instead of Ross. I never witnessed this, however,
> > heard about
> > it from scores of operators.
> >
> > I guess PATransit wanted it made very clear who was in charge now.
> >
> >
> > HrB
>
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