Railroad Lanterns

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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