[PRCo] Re: Trolleys

[Harold G.]

A question to our Wisconsin historians.
I believe that the original Kenosha trolley bus lines were identified
by using colors as names.  Is that correct?  Were the names
used on the destination curtains...irange, green, etc?
Harold Geissenheimer
-----Original Message-----
From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org>
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Date: Monday, March 07, 2005 11:38 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Trolleys


>On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, James B. Holland wrote:
>
>> Highly commendable.       We have lost a member or two on this list
>> because of all the comments denigrating the USA and many others have cut
>> way back on participating if not cut it out altogether.       Don't say
>> it is constructive criticism  --  no way for it to take effect on this
>> list.       Of the 60 or more lists to which I belong this is the  ONLY
>> one where we have self-appointed experts on ALL the politics of the
>> world and where uncontrolled rambling is the Rule rather than the
Exception.
>
>As I said before, I'm no one's mom. If you want to be critical, I'm not
>going to stop you any more than I stopped anyone else. I will say I'm big
>on living by example though. I prefer it when we stay on topic, and I try
>to myself.
>
>> At least WP used Words in addition to colors.       This business of
>> calling a route by Color Only is totally absurd  --  green line and blue
>> line  --  is everything along the line painted blue or green?       Not
>> even the equipment is painted that color  --  one could get on an orange
>> PCC in Boston and be on the green line.       What sense does this
>> make?       In addition to knowing where one wants to go that person
>> also has to associate it with a color.
>
>Well, even when Pittsburgh's subway opened in the 80s, they used color
>coding, (red for 42S, blue for all the 47 lines) but only on maps and
>signs, and not as identifying names. It was perhaps not as useful as it
>could have been (the signs on the high and low platforms in the downtown
>subway were red and blue respectively, and might have had more impact if
>the colors had been more strongly identified with the routes, but the PCCs
>didn't last that long anyway)
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