For two decades Pittsburgh streetcars have worn their checkerboard coats, a design old Pa Pitt must confess he never really liked very much. A whole generation has grown from infancy to adulthood since the last time that livery was changed. Here comes a two-car train into Potomac station in Dormont, and the first car is still wearing its old Port Authority suit. But the second—
—is dressed in the new Pittsburgh Regional Transit livery, which Father Pitt thinks is an improvement.
He cannot stop himself from thinking of it as the Odd Fellows livery, since the three links have been the Odd Fellows’ emblem since the sixth day of creation. But we could do worse than to have Odd Fellows rolling down our streetcar tracks.
The three links on the Odd Fellows lodge in Hazelwood…
…and on the Odd Fellows Hall in the West End.
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