[PRCo] Re: Historic Chaos

[John Swindler]

I always like the "86 Wilkinsburg via Subway Express" with the express in green.  Had heard about, but never saw a "2 Grandma's House via The Woods".
 

 

> From: hrbran at cavtel.net
> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 22:36:50 -0500
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Historic Chaos
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> 
> I have previously related that story, here, on The List, about using that
> sign. I forget the car number other than it was a 1600-series, in original
> PRCo paint, and not in too pretty a shape. The best part was watching the
> people on the sidewalks downtown who noted the sign point and smile or
> laugh.............it was a real attention getter in an era which will never
> be repeated in Pittsburgh.
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 17:05, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:
> 
> > I love your example Ken. And wait until they get a picture of the car
> > coming out of Sous Hills Tunnel with the sign GOTHAM CITY VIA BAT CAVE.
> > I have been told that sign was left in the car after the fantrip and that
> > some motormen used it in lieu of rolling up CAR HOUSE.
> >
> >
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> > On Dec 5, 2011, at 2:43 PM, Ken and Tracie wrote:
> >
> > > I followed the debate over the apparently or possibly mislabeled photo
> > dated
> > > 1906. The imagine could very well have been arbitrarily mislabeled. I
> > > suspect that it has.
> > > I possess a negative showing a Milwaukee Electric interurban on a 1948
> > > fantrip along the Milwaukee-Port Washington line, displaying a
> > destination
> > > which was along a segment of another line. That stop had been eliminated
> > > some years before the photo was taken. The negative was labeled "Waukesha
> > > line, 1939." The shot was taken in Thiensville, Wisconsin. The white
> > flags
> > > on the car should have been a hint.
> > >
> > >
> > > Now imagine the chaos this attached photo could cause in another one
> > hundred
> > > years if it gets into the hands of a non-Pittsburgh fan. :-)
> > >
> > > K.
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> > > -- Size: 98k (100971 bytes)
> > > -- URL :
> > http://lists.dementix.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/pitt1705.jpg
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> Herb Brannon
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