Terrific ads. Some are famous but many I have never seen before.
Note how the PRR includes a casualty count in every ad.
https://ia801400.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/32/items/the-saturday-evening-p
Great ads, looks like Mike hit the “mother lode!”
And yes, the Pennsy didn’t forget their fallen, they erected a memorial to them in the 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. It’s still there, even in the Amtrak era.
And here it is…
https://www.associationforpublicart.org/artwork/pennsylvania-railroad-war-memorial
The PRR lost 1,307 employees. Their names are engraved on the pedestal.
Faboulous follow up to the thread Wayne. Beautiful.
From Mike
Excerpt from interview of Walker Hancock conducted by Robert Brown for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, July 22, 1977
https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-walker-hancock-13287#transcript
ROBERT BROWN: But, you found, generally speaking, that you were able to accommodate your pursuit of what you thought was best in the end, with what they could accept, with what the clients could accept.
WALKER HANCOCK: Yes, it promised to be most difficult in the case of the Pennsylvania Railroad
An earlier one from the March 30, 1942 LIFE magazine:
PRR_1942-merge-sm by Edmund, on Flickr
Thank You,
Ed
Thanks Ed. Love that S1 in the ad. Kind of ironic that in a few short years Pennsy would scrap it. Big big sad mistake. Unbelievable and virtually unforgiveable. They too, like the Central, vanished. Karma, greed, stupidity, justice? For a brief shining moment they were on top of the world.
Great effort, Vince and Mike!
Just imagine how many people we know, in person or not, paid their homage to our fallen soldiers, navies and airmen in the 30th Street Station war memorial.
The world was once united together to fight against those who were surrendered or even worshiping the “corrupted angels”. The battle between good and evil hasn’t ended yet, sadly, it’s probably never gonna end…
Neither the PRR S1 nor the T1 phototypes could travel faster than the speed of light or bend the time dimension, they even had various design flaws. However, they played their part in backing up our troops, just us the railroaders who contributed their time or even sacrificed their precious lives.
From Mike:
Found a video of the sculptor at about 88 years old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44TtavU_f40&t=23s full interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44TtavU_f40&t=7m35s stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44TtavU_f40&t=14m7s talks about the statue
The formal unveiling was by Sgt.
The Monument Men
The sculptor’s daughter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2MSmogbyC8&t=22m30s
https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/local_news/article_2039a340-8529-5d08-a23e-3609aa521dce.html
That would be Major Hancock now!
Interesting seeing MAJOR Hancock’s commission, (I’ll have to call him “major” from now on out of respect!) and aside from the word “temporary” and “Army Of The United States” it’s worded exactly the same as my commissions as Second, and then First Lieutenants in the Marine Corps. As a matter of fact, the commission form hasn’t really changed since the Civil War era.
My First Lieutenant commission is the one I really prize. It was signed by then Secretary of the Navy W. Graham Claytor! I wasn’t a railfan at the time so I didn’t realize the significance, but I sure do now!
Had to work my butt off to get that “autograph,” let me tell 'ya!
Thanks a lot, Miningman.[Y]