[PRCo] Re: Trolleys

[Donald Galt]

On 7 Mar 2005 at 17:39, Harold G. wrote:

> Moscow may have coped New Yprk subways.  The IRT
> had colored lanterns on the front roof.  Much of Moscow
> duplicated New York/  Harold Geissenheimer

Perhaps, but coloured light codes for night-time route identification was a 
practice followed by tramways all over the world, from well before the era of 
the first  IRT subway. As was, come to think of it, some sort of colour coding 
for daytime ID, which followed naturally from elaborately painting the route 
and destination on omnibuses.

Don