11-16-2013, 03:35 AM
Conspicuity stripes: Going from memory here goes. The short answer is that all locomotives and railcars in interchange capable service must be fitted with the stripes by May or June 2015.
New cars and loco's built after 2005 must be fitted with them prior to delivery. For all other cars and loco's in a fleet must be fitted out at the rate of 10% per year minimum to achieve full compliance by 2015. Cars that were voluntarily taped prior to these rules and are not fully compliant can remain so taped until next overhaul/repaint.
The primary colour to use is yellow, but white can be used but needs 50% more tape to be compliant. This is primarily because white is the colour chosen for use by the trucking industry and for the need to make it easy to distinguish between a railcar and a semi-trailer.
The ends of a railcar must have double the amount of stripe to delineate the ends of the car. The remainder required is then evenly spaced along the car or locomotive. The stripes can be either vertical or horizontal but must be the same orientation along the car. Tank cars stripes are vertical so as to catch car headlights on the rounded surface.
For a more detailed answer if you are going to model these stripes, I suggest you google tape manufacturers as they often have easy to follow examples for different railcar types that can be downloaded.
Hope this helps. Mark
ps so much for a short answer
New cars and loco's built after 2005 must be fitted with them prior to delivery. For all other cars and loco's in a fleet must be fitted out at the rate of 10% per year minimum to achieve full compliance by 2015. Cars that were voluntarily taped prior to these rules and are not fully compliant can remain so taped until next overhaul/repaint.
The primary colour to use is yellow, but white can be used but needs 50% more tape to be compliant. This is primarily because white is the colour chosen for use by the trucking industry and for the need to make it easy to distinguish between a railcar and a semi-trailer.
The ends of a railcar must have double the amount of stripe to delineate the ends of the car. The remainder required is then evenly spaced along the car or locomotive. The stripes can be either vertical or horizontal but must be the same orientation along the car. Tank cars stripes are vertical so as to catch car headlights on the rounded surface.
For a more detailed answer if you are going to model these stripes, I suggest you google tape manufacturers as they often have easy to follow examples for different railcar types that can be downloaded.
Hope this helps. Mark
ps so much for a short answer
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