Weekend Photo Fun 8-18-12-??

Picked these PRR glasses up at an antique store last week. They feature GG1 #4902 and the passenger train circles all the way around. There are 3 city skylines: New York, Boston and Washington DC. From what I've found they're 1950's, and I'm assuming were actually from the railroad. If anybody knows anything about them, please share.

Jake, those look like the glasses sold as "Gift ideas from the PRR Dining Car Department."  They were $3.00 for a set of 6 (2.40 for employees) back in 1959. I've scanned and added the ad for them from the November-December 1959 issue of THE PENNSY, the railroad's employee magazine.

I'd say you have a treasure!

B&OBill

Thanks a lot for that information.  It's nice to see where they came from.  My mom pointed them out in the shop in a booth full of dishes that I had overlooked when I first went through.  Couldn't resist getting them because I thought they were neat

Jake and Bill,

Thank you so much for your posts. I have one of the 'Stemless cocktail glasses' illustrated in your advertisement, that I found in a shop in Lancaster, PA, about 20 years ago. The illustration on mine is of a GG-1 pulling a freight train (Including 'Piggy-back' cars.) The PRR logo and the GG-1 are in red, and the freight cars and a signal bridge are in white. It appears to be exactly the same as the one illustrated.

I have always wondered if it was an original PRR item or not. Especially as I only paid $1.00 for it. Thank you both for solving the mystery.

What I rode today ---  Victoria Peak -  Hong Kong

And these are pretty cool too:

Very nice

Some pictures of my 'Stemless Cocktail Glass'. Identified at last.

(Click the thumbnails below for more views.)

Jake and Nicole,

I'm glad I could be of help. I have received so much good information here on OGR that I am happy to have been able to return the favor.

Also, Nicole, looking forward to my first-ever trip to England in Sept. Will be riding a steam train to Plymouth from Paddington, seeing Didcot Steam Centre, and the National Ry. Museum in York.

Any suggestions on places to see public O-gauge layouts?

B&OBill  (email in profile)

Wow Jake...that's a very neat find.

Thanks Keith.  I like them a lot.  Since I got my Lionel JLC GG1, I've really started liking PRR stuff more and more.  Since the main thing on them is a GG1, how could I resist?

The only curious thing is that Motor 4902 never was painted “red.”

But still a neat set to have if a Pennsy fan.

I bet it had something to do with the printing of the design on the glass.  I would imagine that each color was applied in different steps, so it was probably to make the printing process easier and less costly by using fewer colors.

Back then, there were very few colors that they could screen print on glass.

JOHN, Thanks for sharing these cool pictures from Hong Kong.