Cool video from early days

NBC 4 did a story on their website about WMATA having a birthday...of when it was created...

Check out the old video they posted...I LOVE IT!
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local ... WMATA.html

I would love to see more videos!

Either the roll signs didn't work from the start, or that video wasn't from week one. On the first 2 cars to pull into the station, there is only one sign working, not two.

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Either the roll signs didn't work from the start, or that video wasn't from week one. On the first 2 cars to pull into the station, there is only one sign working, not two.

You would be correct, they didn't.

I can recall many times being aboard trains during the first year where the signs were displaying the rong sign, nothing or rolling endlessly from end to end searching for the bar code for the desired sign. I even saw a few signs where the rolls were torn making them unable move. The original sign rolls were in the neighborhood of 100 feet long. Most of the terminal pairs were nowhere near each other.

So the roll signs, while cool to see, didn't work well...