From: dannyb@panix.com   
      
   In <12aa36f3-9b26-4842-8492-015849ce4897@googlegroups.com> hanco   
   k4@bbs.cpcn.com writes:   
      
   >I didn't see the movie.  But, all subway cars purchased after WW II   
   >had fluorescent lighting.  In 1957 there was a reasonable chance   
   >one would get a newer car that had it.  So, the movie was not   
   >incorrect in using more modern interiors.   
      
   ah, ok. My primary routes back then were lines   
   that ran the R-9s, which looked like they'd   
   last forever.   
      
   The first fluorescents I recall were the "new"   
   blue painted cars on the #7 Flushing line   
   (as in "follow the blue lines to the World's   
   Fair trains").   
      
      
      
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