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New Haven Railroad Station Signs

April 1st, 2000

The New Haven Railroad used a number of different standard station sign designs over the years. Unlike other New England railroads, which used porcelainized enamel on sheet metal station signs, all New Haven station signs were made of wood. Here are a few typical examples from the collection of Marc Frattasio.

This passenger station sign, from Westchester, CT, represents the standard design which was used between before the turn of the century and 1955. Many of these station signs switched brown paint for black.

During the early summer of 1955 the New Haven retained Knoll Associates to redecorate a number of passenger stations in the McGinnis administration's new image red, black, and white colors. A number of standardized new image station sign designs came out of this effort, of which this sign, from Yarmouth, MA, is but one example.

The Alpert administration had more important things to worry about between 1956 and 1961 than exactly following the Knoll Associates new image passenger station sign design specifications. This example, from Mansfield, MA, dates from the late 1950s or very early 1960s.

In 1964 the New Haven began to use passenger station signs which incorporated 3M's silver 'Scotchlite' reflective sheeting. This example is from Boston's Back Bay station.

This sign, from Falmouth, MA, is representative of the New Haven Railroad's standard freight station sign. Many of these signs used black paint instead of brown.

This sign, from Fox Point, RI, is an unusual example of a 'named' freight station sign. Most New Haven freight stations used some variation of the 'anonymous' example shown above.