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NJCJOE posted:

p51 posted:

NJCJOE posted:

 

These were white originally? I've seen repros and supposed originals, but they're all yellow when they're painted. Maybe that's due to what we think of crossing signs today (as stop signs were yellow for many years but many don't know that).

Here is a copy of the PRR standard drawing for these signs. Right above the title block it states that the sign shall be painted black on white.

Thanks for the info! I assumed it might have been different back in the day (like for example as stop signs were yellow and not red for many years), good to know how they're really supposed to look.