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QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton Mitch 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? Jay
QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton Unti you mentioned the signs, they hadn't come to mind for many years. Nice that at least one was saved. Reminds me of the pretrip procedure. Flip the seats, turn the signs, and in the winter, use a discarded cash receipt to hold a piece of ice on the thermostat so the car heat did not shut off. The only thing that should have been on the signs is that the Matteson Special sign should have had in brackets [THIS TRAIN DOES NOT STOP AT HYDE PARK]. Jay
QUOTE: Originally posted by daveklepper I rode the old green mu cars many times. Intersting distinction. The ONLY mu cars anywhere that had both rapid-transit-like pantograph gates on the ends AND regular passenger coach diaphrams for walking between cars. It gave those cars a very businesslike balanced appearance that I liked a lot. The old Lackawanna dc mu cars which I also road a lot out of Hoboken were very similar but lacked both pantograph gates and diaphrams. I also know that on a few occasions the old IC mu's were used off wire behind steam, without lights or heat.
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