Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
QUOTE: Originally posted by baldwinjl It appears that the stop sign turned red in 1954. I'm sure there were yellow ones about for some time (I think I remember some, so there must have been for at least a decade). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_sign
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Marlon
See pictures of the Clinton-Golden Valley RR
QUOTE: Originally posted by baldwinjl On the centerline question--- http://tcd.tamu.edu/Documents/evolution.stand-alone.pdf It looks like the "official" change was 1971, which which fits my distant memory, more or less. However, it looks like there may have been variation from state to state before that, so a difinitive answer may be difficult to come up with. I didn't read this thing word for word, but it has a lot of info...
QUOTE: Originally posted by CNJ831 Doc - As I'm sure you have gathered by now from the responses, in your modeled era you are safe to go with the red stop signs, white highway marking, and olive mail boxes. Most major changes came post 1970, I often think because youger adults of the period were trying to separate themselves from the ways of the early post-war generation. Incidentally, it's a hoot to carefully watch vintage films/movies and note the dramatic differences from pre-war to post-war. In the 1930's very few roads, including major NYC area highways, had any centerline divider marks at all! You used the form lines in the concrete slabs to indicate your lane. And most downtown, two-way, suburban city streets were unmarked through the 1950's. Imagine setting today's drivers loose on such roads! CNJ831