11-12-2009, 09:11 PM
Torikoos:
Check the current PhotoFun thread for a couple of late-era cabooses. Note that most of the windows have been plated over. The most recent CN and CP cabooses that I've seen have had the windows covered -- usually with badly painted plywood.
Not sure when the signal types came in. In the 1950s, CPR had searchlight type signals with a single light; CNR had triple lights, like a traffic light. But on our line, CNR had single light signals until last year when they were replaced with 3-light LEDs. Any of these heads might be mounted up to 3 deep on a mast to give complex instructions. On CPR's eastern Ontario line the signals were approach lighted -- dark until a train was in a nearby block and lit until the train was a couple of blocks past.
Check the current PhotoFun thread for a couple of late-era cabooses. Note that most of the windows have been plated over. The most recent CN and CP cabooses that I've seen have had the windows covered -- usually with badly painted plywood.
Not sure when the signal types came in. In the 1950s, CPR had searchlight type signals with a single light; CNR had triple lights, like a traffic light. But on our line, CNR had single light signals until last year when they were replaced with 3-light LEDs. Any of these heads might be mounted up to 3 deep on a mast to give complex instructions. On CPR's eastern Ontario line the signals were approach lighted -- dark until a train was in a nearby block and lit until the train was a couple of blocks past.
David
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.