[PRCo] Re: Historic Chaos

[Dwight Long]

Herb

Back in my day of running trips in Pgh. we had a number of bogus signs 
produced by the Acme Aluminum Storm Door and Roll Sign Co.  One of my 
favorites said something about Evans City with a fractionated route number. 
Didn't matter.  Most folks, outside the Triangle, never looked at the roll 
sign.  Car came along, they tried to board and were greatly offended when 
they could not.

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herb Brannon" <hrbran at cavtel.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 10:36 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Historic Chaos


>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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> -- 
> Herb Brannon
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