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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 5:27 pm Post subject:

Flatbush & Avenue I, 1971.........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154269

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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 5:31 pm Post subject:

Atlantic & Columbia, 1972..............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154417

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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 5:40 pm Post subject:

3rd Avenue & 14th, 1972.........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?155679

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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 5:44 pm Post subject:

Union Square W. & 16th, 1972.......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?155199

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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 6:10 pm Post subject:

Here's a vintage traffic light collection that is LIGHT-YEARS beyond MIND-BOGGLING.......WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Shocked

www.kbrhorse.net/signals/signals01.html

"Survivors" ("4-Ways"):

www.kbrhorse.net/signals/fourways01.html

traildriver · Joined: 26 Mar 2011 Posts: 2459 Location: South Florida

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:19 pm Post subject:

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:35 pm Post subject:

Here's another bygone "traffic signal" that should not be overlooked; the warning light that once marked streetcar safety islands......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?117464

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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:37 pm Post subject:

Fresh Pond Rd, 1949.......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?142041

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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:38 pm Post subject:

Bygone Brooklyn......

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?118093

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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:42 pm Post subject:

Vanderbilt Avenue & Grand Army Plaza, circa-1950......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?140735

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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:49 pm Post subject:

Church & Remsen, 1956; as can be noted by this photo and those previous, "two-light" aspect traffic lights were far from rare in Brooklyn, back in those days.....

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?49818

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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 11:01 pm Post subject:

Fellows:

I had to include this rare 1940's shot from Los Angeles; here we see a Pacific Electric Old Look YELLOW loading passengers, with a classic "semaphore" traffic light keeping guard.

These charming and interesting old traffic lights have been seen in countless old movies and theatrical cartoons, from the late 1920's through the 1950's.......

https://www.newdavesrailpix.com/pe/htm/pe546.htm

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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 11:11 pm Post subject:

Here's an excellent page detailing NYC's long-forgotten "traffic towers"* of the 1920's......

www.nypdhistory.com/nycs-fifth-avenues-traffic-squad-signal-tower-system-state-of-the-art-for-the-1920s/

*Be sure to read of how the colors of the lights used on the towers had different meanings than the modern signals do today.

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 10:22 am Post subject:

Newark, New Jersey, also once boasted an elaborate traffic tower (Broad & Market).

Though this historic tower was not destroyed when it was removed from service, it was relocated to an area cemetery, where it remains to this day, keeping watch over the headstones, instead of a steady parade PSNJ streetcars, buses, and motor traffic.....

https://wiki.highwaydivides.com/index.php?title=New_Jersey_-_Newark_Traffic_Tower