Editing Porter (carrier) (section)

=== In North America ===
Certain trade-specific terms are used for forms of porters in North America, including [[bellhop]] (hotel porter), redcap (railway station porter), and [[skycap]] (airport porter).

The practice of railroad station porters wearing red-colored caps to distinguish them from blue-capped train personnel with other duties was begun on Labor Day of 1890 by an African-American porter in order to stand out from the crowds at [[Grand Central Terminal]] in New York City.<ref name="drake">{{cite book|last1=Drake|first1=St. Clair|author-link1=St. Clair Drake|last2=Cayton|first2=Horace R.|author-link2=Horace R. Cayton Jr.|title=Black Metropolis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8RPgI6EhRvwC&pg=PA237|year=1970|publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]]|isbn=978-0-226-16234-8|page=237}}</ref> The tactic immediately caught on, over time adapted by other forms of porters for their specialties.<ref name="railwayprogress">{{cite book|title=Railway Progress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WHzVAAAAMAAJ|access-date=24 March 2013|year=1950}}</ref>