[PRCo] Re: Historic Chaos

[John Swindler]

Perhaps the same firm produced the rollsign:  "FARE $4.50" in red with white lettering.

 

> From: dwightlong at verizon.net
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Historic Chaos
> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 19:08:22 -0500
> 
> 
> 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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> >> http://lists.dementix.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/pitt1705.jpg
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> >
> > -- 
> > Herb Brannon
> > In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
> >
> >
> > 
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