I just visited the B&O museum and noted the "colored" car on display there. It was enlightening as to the different safety standards employed for " white" and "colored" cars. I was informed by a volunteer that these cars were also where you went to smoke if you were "white" as smoking was banned in the "white" cars. I know for lines that operated in the segregated south that they had separate and unequal stations in the south. My question is for "coloreds" traveling from the segregated south to the north once they crossed to the north were they allowed to move to the others cars or did the railroads maintain segregation.once north? for "coloreds" traveling south did you board a "colored" only car in the non segregated north? Wondering how the railroads dealt with this ugliness?
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