[PRCo] Re: Museum shop sales

[John Swindler]

Thanks, Bob, for the 'heads-up'.

How about CTA hat badges from around 1968???  Particularly number: 13254

I've still got the summer cap, but haven't had that hat badge since I turned 
it in some 36 years ago.  I also seem to recall that the CTA transfer punch 
was a circle.  Or are there different designs?

John


>From: "Bob Rathke" <bobrathke at comcast.net>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: "Pittsburgh Trolley List" <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Subject: [PRCo] Museum shop sales
>Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 12:56:56 -0500
>
>In the mid-1960's, when PAT started to abandon trolley lines and scrap many 
>PCC's, PTM acquired a supply of excess trolley items that they sold in the 
>museum gift shop.  I bought a Car Stop sign, a control console switch plate 
>from a PCC and other items for a few dollars.  Items that I didn't buy were 
>the electric fare registers, from 1200's, I believe.
>A similar sale is happening at the Illinois Railway Museum these days.  IRM 
>must have been given a truckload of excess CTA stuff that is now in the 
>used bookstore (a Milwaukee Road baggage car): coin changers (with CTA 
>stamping) for $10, ticket punches (no stamping) for $10, controller handles 
>from CTA L cars for $25, and brass brake handles from steeplecab electric 
>locomotives for $35.  Plus CTA signs and third rail and pole insulators. 
>There are hundreds of these items in cartons stacked high in the baggage 
>car.  There's even a keg full of spare springs for the ticket punches.
>
>Most of these items became excess inventory after the start of 
>exact-fare-only, electronic tickets/passes and electronic car control 
>systems.
>
>Bob 5/7/05
>