Railroad Lanterns

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Tue May 20 14:50:06 EDT 2008


Fascinating, Walt! I'd never heard of this before. Do you know if it
was industry-wide, or specific to SCL? Also, was the lens split
vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, or were there perhaps two
separate lenses?

Kenneth Rickman

NW Mailing List wrote:

> The passenger conductor had a lantern with a split green and clear glass

> to differentiate his signals from anyone else, so that his signal was

> the only one the engineer would take.

>

> Walt

> ex-SCL car knocker



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