[PRCo] Re: Historic Chaos

[Dwight Long]

John

Not Pittsburgh, but I wonder what roll sign readings were used on the 
Syracuse Underground Railway (SUR)?

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Swindler" <j_swindler at hotmail.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 8:30 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Historic Chaos


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> 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".
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>> 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
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>> 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:
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>> > 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:
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>> > > 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.
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>> > > 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. :-)
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>> > > K.
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>> -- 
>> Herb Brannon
>> In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
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