[Accrs] Exterior Railroad Signs

[Alameda County Central Railroad Society]

We've had some good thoughts on signs.

Do we have anyone to step up in time for the fair?

Ted

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society <
accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:

> Message From: Theodore Tully  tullyme2 at gmail.com
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> I lack creativity so I will defer on that one.
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> However, there is no doubt that an attractive sign will attract visitors
> so we should move forward ASAP. Any reasonable expenditure should be OK.
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> Union Pacific has name recognition, but anything attractive will be fine.
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> Who can step forward in time to get something done? We are out of time!
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> Ted
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> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Alameda County Central Railroad Society <
> accrs at mail.accrs.org> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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,
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>> Tony
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