A friend of mine sent along a list of 10 questions, I am not sure of the answer and thought that maybe someone on the list could help. As I read over this list, I can see that many of the answers are very important for those who model the late 50's. Don
Here goes..... >I have some trivia (dates) questions that I need answered to keep me >historically correct, as follows: > >1) When did US Stop signe go from yellow to red? 1957-60 thereabouts > >I just found out that Canada adopted red a lot earlier than we did.-no >surprise, main color of Canadian flag. > >2) When did mailboxes go from drab-olive to blue? I know storage boxes are >sill in olive, but the mail-drop-off boxes changed colors. Hold on. OD to blue >with red top and white lettering, 1955-58. Then around 60-65 to solid blue. > >3) When did the railroad loose the mail contracts in mass? 1967, but they had >it coming. Land Grants were revoked at railroad pressure in Congress, around >1941 this doubled the amount the PO had to pay so after the war trucks and >air flights became cheaper. >4) When did street lamps go to Mercury Vapor (blue) and then to the Amber >color? The blue was around in the early '50s but not uinversally. I would >speculate around 1957-60. We had orange mercury vapor lights in what looked >like those wire letter trays with solid top and bottom on the Belt Parkway in >the late '40s, but that was the only installation I know of like that. When I >first flew into LAX around 1980, Long Beach was all orange in a sea of blue. >5) When did footboards on locomotives (diesels) become outlawed? I guess 1960 >but don't know. >6) When did roofwalks become outlawed? >7) When did Archbar trucks and Andrews trucks become outlawed in interchange? >That kept changing. They kept pushing it back for the archbars, I think either >41 or 45. Andrews, I haven't a clue. >8) When did the white hiway edge-of-road strips start. Funny story about that. >A local highway dept employee somewhere figured it would be a good idea and >kept trying to get his department to do it, only it cost more. So on a curve >of road in the woods where cars kept going off and killing people in evening >fogs, he paid to have it done himself. Accidents stopped. It soon became >universal. I think it was around 1960-65 >9) When did yellow stripes become used in highways instead of white? I think >yellow goes way back. I remember some of those in Brooklyn in the '50s. >10) Whe did ACI labels start and than abandoned? That you would have to ask >Don. Out of my time period, but I guess they started around the mid '60s and >ended in the '70s. > > > > To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL; to reply to the sender, use REPLY. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list (remember to edit the SUBJECT of your message). Change message settings, use our CALENDAR or LINKS, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
