[PRCo] Re: ad car

[John F Bromley]

This is PAT era not PRC - it wasn't an ad car, just a painted pieced on the
white area.  Unfortunately I've never heard of it.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Schneider" <fschnei at supernet.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 12:42 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: ad car


>
>
>
> I just pulled out the Pittsburgh Railways paint book and it isn't any help
...
> tells dates and car colors (when you see something in purple and white, or
red
> and green you know its an advertising car, but the book fails to disclose
what
> advertisement.
>
> Another suggestion:  Charlie Dengler took thousands of PRC negatives, all
up
> close and in your face.  Most of them are in the library at Arden.  I
don't
> think he did a whole lot in the 1950s and later.  But you may want to talk
to
> EHL about rummaging through the negative files for ad cars.  Later stuff?
Well,
> JOhn Bromley may be your best hope.  I personally have never seen a
picture of
> it but then, unlike Bromley, I don't get turned on by ad cars.
>
> "Dennis F. Cramer" wrote:
>
> >     Since I created quite a stir with my last post, I thought I would
make a
> > request for a colleague and get you busy with some research.
> >     I was at District Band yesterday when a fellow band director told me
> > about growing up in the South Hills and riding those really streamlined
> > trolleys (he was oblivious to the term PCC).  He remembers one ad car
> > decorated for the Royal Crusader's Drum & Bugle Corps.  Anyone know of a
> > picture that I can use to surprise him and help him relive some of those
> > great Pittsburgh memories?
> >
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