What font did the RDG use for the blue and white station signs ?

TIA
John

I have a station sign from "HARTRANFT" on the Stony Creek Branch. it looks to be a standard modern gothic font. that is what I used on the computer when making signs for my HO stations.

The Station signs vary. The last "Joanna" sign was a steel channel, painted sky blue with white, vertical lettering. Older signs had a gold, roman style font and border, newer signs were whtie gothic with a white border3

I don't ever remember seeing the r.r. roman in gold. on any signs. just the white on blue. as far as what the signs were made of. I guess towards the end if a sign was taken or stolen, they used anything available to replace it.

I once saw a sign on eBay that was from the Bethlehem Union Station that was in black/gold and said "Bethlehem - The Reading" but that could have been done by the LV.

In any event, Reading signs were originally wood, with the old-style serif lettering. Later on, they went to the enameled metal with the gothic sans serif lettering. The lettering style is outlined in the ARHS "Reading MOW Plans Book." In some cases the enameled metal sign was mounted directly on/over the old wooden sign, which was cut down to fit. In general from my observations, the later signs were smaller due to the sans serif lettering.

In ANOTHER twist, the Franklin Street station sign (in the collection at the RRHM) was BROWN, not blue.

Someone (I think it was clover house) made printed Reading station signs a while back - a sheet full of the most common locales. Not sure if they're still in business.

Tom

I obtained the Vera Cruz staion sign, where I live, from the operators of the rail line at the time. I thought it was a backing board after the over lay had been stolen. It was in fair to poor paint. When the operators saw some one in a out of state car poking around the sign he told me to take it before it dissapears. I did and It was like an old bleached barn board. I could bearly make out the letters. I wanted to make an exact copy to hang up by the station site. I tried to transpose the letters to the new board but some areas were to hard to see. Then when serching thru my books for a picture I found my yellow covered copy of Reading Railroad standards. I found a page of letters & numbers. Giving ratios of height to every other aspect of the letters including the spacing between letters. It was dead on to the station sign letters. ( by the way its the same lettering as on the yellow & green caboose word READING. The problem I ran into with the sign was when I got to the last letter Z the spacing was wrong. If I space it to the standards It would be too close to the boarder trim line. They screwed up. They ran out of space. So to be correct I made mine wrong too, just so its like the real one.
So what ever the style the caboose lettering is thats what they used on the signs of that period according to the reading standards book.