The R40-46 Front End Sign

    On 26 Jan 2000, I was on an train.   Riding in the first car of the train, I noticed something.  The door panel to the left of the front end door opened up as the train started to move, which revealed something that looks like this:

1	(JFK Express)	Turquoise	11	(N)	Yellow
2	(A)	Blue	14	(Q)	Yellow
12	(B)	Yellow	16	(Q)	Orange
17	(B)	Orange	8	(R)	Yellow
3	(C)	Blue	22	<R>	Brown
13	(D)	Yellow	9	(S)	Yellow
15	(D)	Orange	19	(S)	Orange
5	(E)	Blue	26	(S)	Gray
6	(F)	Orange	20	(V)	Orange
7	(G)	Lime	10	<W>	Yellow
4	(H)	Blue	24	(Z)	Brown
23	(J)	Brown	27		Not In Service
18	(K)	Blue	28		Special
25	(L)	Gray	29		Shuttle
21	(M)	Brown

Notes:

• Letters in parentheses indicate those letters in circles.
• Letters in angle brackets indicate those in diamonds.
• The words "JFK Express" indicate a silhouette of an airplane.

I recorded the data into my book, which I was carrying with me at the time, then arranged the data into numerical order, then I created the graphic below.

This rollsign is used on cars in the following series:
R40, R42, R44, R46

Recently, rollsigns on R40 slants have have had a yellow diamond Q's pasted over reading 13. Roll your mouse over Reading 13 to see this effect.