[Accrs] Exterior Railroad Signs

[Alameda County Central Railroad Society]

I think I like the idea of a factory reproducible sign. I'm kind of worried
if we put the SP roundel out front it will get vandalized.
On Jun 5, 2016 9:27 PM, "Alameda County Central Railroad Society" <
accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:

> Message From: Tony Long  tony.long at outlook.com
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> Hey Folks,  at the last Friday's meeting the topic of the Southern Pacific
> railroad sign came up regarding a possible movement to a different
> location.
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> Here's my two cents on thinking about this.
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> *  People like signs - especially old, historical, signs
>
> * As a railroad club we should promote the railroad history of Alameda
> County
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> * Railroads that are/were in Alameda County are: Central Pacific,  Union
> Pacific,  Santa Fe,  Western Pacific,  Alameda Belt Line,  Oakland
> Terminal, Key Line, that Berkeley hills line (forget the name).   Anyone
> has a list of all that ever existed?   Focus on the major ones.
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> * We should be able to find a metal shop that can take computer drawings
> and cut to the shape needed - like the UP shield shape.
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> * We should spare no expensive in getting the best quality power coating,
> color match, paint job possible - a sign that will last the next 150 years
> or more.
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> Regarding the existing Southern Pacific sign - I recommend that we don't
> move that.  It has some corrosion already and if we move it, we could risk
> cracking the coating which will cause even more corrosion.
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> Since we'll need permission to add anything to the exterior,  perhaps we
> should decide what we want,  how many,  what size.  We could even take a
> picture of the building and photoshop railroad emblems to scale and show
> that to them.
>
> Just some thoughts,
>
> Tony
>
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