West Penn "Orange" OR: [Where's The Red?]

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

John Swindler wrote:

> CONNELLSVILLE COURIER, Feb 26, 1918

> TROLLEY CAR CHASES AUTOMOBILE UP HILL AND THEM RAMS IT

	From the sounds of the headlines, I had visions of the trolleycar
chasing the automobile for a whole block before it was *finally* able to
catch and purposely ram it.  Snoozepaper sensationalism under
development, I guess.  Hardly the case once the article is read:. . .

> Mr. Dunn saw the
> street car just as he reached the crossing and he turned the machine up the
> tracks, running ahead of he car to avoid a collision.  The street car was
> not stopped quickly enough and overtook the automobile about 80 feet up the
> tracks.

	Reminds me of a story that appeared in *Traction & Models* where a
motorman was not able to stop his trolleycar in time to avoid a
collision and a witness on the sidewalk claimed the motorman didn't even
try.
	This witness then became a motorman and had a similar accident while in
training.  The trainee said:  "I witnessed an accident several years ago
and claimed the motorman didn't try to stop; now I see he couldn't." 
The trainee never learned that his instructor on the car was the
motorman of the accident he had witnessed.

> CONNELLSVILLE COURIER, July 3, 1918

> TRESTLE FOR WEST PENN

> Temporary Wooden Structure to Span railroad Tracks

> To provide for traffic over the West Penn railways line, the administration
> will have erected a temporary wooden trestle crossing the Baltimore & Ohio
> and Western Maryland lines.

	Was this ever upgraded to a full steel structure as indicated, or did
it remain as a temporary wooden structure which added much character to
the WP?

> CONNELLSVILLE COURIER, July 6, 1918

> WEST PENN WILL REDUCE CAR STOPS UNDER NEW RULING

> Fuel Administration Orders Street Railways Companies to Curtail Some
> Stations

	Hey John; - how did this affect PRCo??

> CONNELLSVILLE COURIER, December 17, 1918

> YELLOW CARS WITH A VIEW TO SAFETY

> The new cars are the exact type of the others being used by the west Penn
> with the exception that they are painted an orange color.  This color is
> being used with a view to determining whether some of the car accidents can
> be eliminated, it being thought that perhaps the color will make the
> approaching trolley more conspicuous to the automobile driver or pedestrian.

	Well, what is the color - Yellow or Orange?  Headline says Yellow, body
of article says *Orange Color.*

James B. Holland

        Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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