A Jim Crow of similar vintage is at Gold Coast Railroad Museum in Miami - or was......anyhow, the signs were printed on 3 sides of a triangular stick which rotated in brackets on either end, so the side facing the car could be turned and legible. One side said "colored," one said "white", and the other I saw had the initials MRHS for Miami Railroad Historical Society on it, which I presume was a post preservation alteration. I couldn't tell you what it may have said (if not left plain) originally. I think it was a SAL car, but other Southern roads may have also use this type.

dave

My wife is a professional graphic artist.

Among the many things that we've learned the hard way, and which has to be pounded forcibly into the heads of many "newbies" and clients:

1) Computer monitors don't always show color accurately, even when high-priced and routinely "calibrated."

2) Garbage in, garbage out. Your digital camera, flatbed scanner, negative, or slide film may not render the colors perfectly.

As somebody who was one of those folks who could often, with stunning accuracy, tell you just by looking at a slide whether it was taken with Kodachrome, Ektachrome, or Fujichrome based on its color rendition alone, this entire argument on the accuracy or lack thereof of a car's paint job based on what we're seeing on Internet pictures is not only ridiculous, it's a [BLEEP]ing waste of time, pixels, and electrons.

Well, at least nobody is counting rivets... ;-)

I read this about one minute after I just compared the Votava photo with the new images, examining just exactly how big the numbers were and how many rivets they were up from the bottom and down from the top..........

..... and then quietly screaming "they forgot the rain gutters over the vestibules!!"..........

I think I'll just go to bed now.