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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by jeaton</i> <br /><br />Mitch <br /> <br />How much would you want to bet that the even with the cost of the labor to turn the roll signs, they would be significantly less cost to own and operate than "them newfangled" electric signs? <br /> <br />Jay <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Jay, <br />I'd bet it all. I don't like the new digital signs as the contrast between lettering and background isn't great. When the new signs go bad order they spell out things in a strange language. What really gets me is that years ago one of the great transit gurues decided that upper/lower case lettering on signs was easier and quicker to read. As if millions of passengers for the first 80 years of transit riding were lost. Then, when the new fangled signs came out the lettering went back to all capital letters. <br /> <br />And speakin' of the IC, one of the things I enjoyed about the destination signs was that the reading for "EXPRESS" was on a red background, and that for "SPECIAL" was on an ornage backround. The spacing of letters was aleays readable from a distance. MATTESON, BLUE ISLAND, and SO. SHORE. DIST., all had their distinctive look. I have one right here in the studio. It's set to "SO.SHORE DIST. SO. CHGO EXPRS." I have a light behind it so I can look at it from the john at night and think I'm on 71st Street. <br /> <br />Last time I was in New York I stopped by GCT. I saw a Metro North train sitting on one of the tracks and wouldn't you know it, there was an inovation. At the top of the engineer's window was a roll sign of the old order. It was set at "New York Express," complete with white letters on a red background. <br /> <br />Mitch
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