[PRCo] Re: West Penn logo through the ages

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!!

> robert netzlof wrote:

> Last night somebody brought a video tape of home
> movies of West Penn cars running here there and
> elsewhere in Westmoreland and Fayette counties. No
> dates, no commentary, just movies of trolleys and very
> odd music.

> Part way through, one of the guys said "Hey! That 700
> didn't have any logos on the side!" Rewound, looked
> again, and the club immediately divided into two
> camps.
> 1. That's right, no logos.
> 2. There were logos in the usual places, but they were
> just black outlines and letters, no white background.

Dear Sweet Bob(:->)

	The originals of the tape were  *probably*  8mm movies and it is the 
*rule*  that details are extremely blurred, although there are some
notable exceptions.   Even a WP logo could be blurred enough as to be
unrecognizable.

	Twould be better to go back and review color slides where available as
well as prints and even B&W prints to determine info about logos.

	Picture bottom of pg.23 in CERA--110 WP book shows 736 with logos and
704 without!   A quick review shows that the cars on pgs.33, 34 (same
car - 718) also without logos!

	PRCo apparently started to place the winged logo behind the center
doors on PCCs about 1952 but even in 1960 there were still some cars
that never received a logo  --  could be the same with WP.

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James B. Holland

Holland  Electric  Railway  Operation
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