i was cleaning up my grandfathers house a couple months ago, and was up in the attic, and this was laying over the whole house fan vent, must of made the perfect seal. nobody knew anything about it, as it was in the house when they bought it... i took it for my train room. finally got it down here to Oklahoma, and ive never seen this symbol before, its clearly Pennsylvania. wasnt sure if anyone could give me any info on it
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I think the logo at the bottom of your sign is one of the former logo's of the Pennsylvania Dept. of Transportation (Penndot). The logo indicates that the sign was Penndot approved or compliant. If memory serves, Penndot also had that logo on the doors of their road trucks ...which often slept 2 to 6.
In 1970, the Department of Highways became the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. The original logo was a triangular design superimposed on a keystone and reflected land, air and sea modes of travel.
Keystone is correct, thats exactly what it is. Its also illegal to remove it from the state and ill have to come and confiscate it from you 
My brother in law works for Penn Dot, the railroad division and is in charge of all rail road crossings. He is in charge of the roads, not the tracks. Anyway he is always bringing me some piece of railroad memorabilia, signs, crossbucks, flashing lights. One day he brings me home one of the crossing bells. So Im cleaning up and fixing the bell in my work shop which is fairly small, only about 10x10. I noticed that the bell works on 20 volts DC. So I hook it up to an old HO powerpack and give it the 20 volts DC. WOW! MAN ARE THOSE THINGS LOUD! lol
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