[Accrs] Exterior Railroad Signs

[Alameda County Central Railroad Society]

I lack creativity so I will defer on that one.

However, there is no doubt that an attractive sign will attract visitors so
we should move forward ASAP. Any reasonable expenditure should be OK.

Union Pacific has name recognition, but anything attractive will be fine.

Who can step forward in time to get something done? We are out of time!

Ted


On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society <
accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:

> Message From: Lee And Joan Buckner  buckyrailfan at aol.com
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> Tony:
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> The line you're thinking about is the Sacramento Northern (old Oakland,
> Antioch, & Eastern).
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> Lee
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alameda County Central Railroad Society <accrs at mail.accrs.org>
> To: accrs <accrs at mail.accrs.org>
> Sent: Sun, Jun 5, 2016 9:27 pm
> Subject: [Accrs] Exterior Railroad Signs
>
> Message From: Tony Long tony.long at outlook.com
> 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
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> * 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.
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> Just some thoughts,
>
> Tony
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