West Penn "Orange"

[Fred W. Schneider III]

Using that logic, buses in State College should be blue and white?

"Dietrich, Robert J." wrote:

> This was a stroke of genius on their part.  Just watch any major league
> sporting event involving a team from the 'burgh and you'll see why.  Nobody
> in that city wants to do damage to the "Team Colors."
>
> Bob
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From:   Kenneth Josephson [mailto:kjosephson at sprintmail.com]
> Sent:   Tuesday, September 26, 2000 5:45 PM
> To:     pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject:        Re: West Penn "Orange"
>
> What was PAT's rationale for going to white with black and gold stripes? Are
> there
> statistics on mainline railroads and the "safety stripes"  some of them used
> on the
> front of their locomotives? Ken J.