Nostalgia & History > WP on Third St Oakland late 1960's

Was the WP required to use the indicator lights as directional lights when making a turn off a street? The unit is 919-A.

Robert Morris
Dunsmuir, CA
Robert Morris Photography

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2-3 trains would probably go by before I figured out what that sign meant, if at all!!!

Neat shot, Bob!

RC Lundgren

No, the engineer should have put his had out and bent upward at the elbow to signafy a left t5urn.  Just what we did before electronic turn signals.

rusticmike6 Wrote:
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> No, the engineer should have put his had out and
> bent upward at the elbow to signafy a left
> t5urn.  Just what we did before electronic turn
> signals.

I learned as a left-side driver, so my left turns held the arm straight out, with right turns using the bent elbow.

chakk Wrote:
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> rusticmike6 Wrote:
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> > No, the engineer should have put his had out
> and
> > bent upward at the elbow to signafy a left
> > t5urn.  Just what we did before electronic
> turn
> > signals.
>
> I learned as a left-side driver, so my left turns
> held the arm straight out, with right turns using
> the bent elbow.

That's why you had a fireman, so they could give the hand signals when you were going to turn.
 

A look at the 3rd St. circa 1965 trackmap. There was a Baker and Hamilton on that block to the right of the train in the 1950's! 

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