[PRCo] Re: Trolleys

[Boris Cefer]

And also other cities in other countries on other continents used colour
destination signs for people who couldn't read. An example might be Moscow
in Russia. They had two colour lights, one at each side of the front
destination box and this practise was still commont in the late 50s. When
Tatra delivered first T2 PCC cars, some cities called for the colour
destination signs, which was a reason for the manufacturer to introduce
polyglass parts in the construction of rail vehicles (starting in 1961),
because the roof ends would be too difficult to made of steel. But I can't
find any evidence of that the Russian cities would eventually use the lights
to insert colour glasses, and if they used it, then only in the early years.
Boris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold G." <transitmgr2 at earthlink.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 8:26 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Trolleys


> greetings to all
>
> The Mexico City Metro has long used pictographs
> to identify stations in addition to words.   A system
> does what it has to do..
>
> In Pgh we used red destination signs for express bus
>  and green for 35 cent limited stop buses  Like
> Shadyside.
>
> Harold Geissenheimer.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AProchek at aol.com <AProchek at aol.com>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Date: Monday, March 07, 2005 2:20 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Trolleys
>
>
> >Yes it is.... West Penn apparently used color coded destination signs for
> immigrants who didn't understand the language.  Ha - how's that for
getting
> back on topic!
> >
>
>


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