Rhinestones

[Anonymous]

I was recently ordering parts for my trains and saw that they make red rhinestones also. Every postwar steamer I have seen has green ones. Why do they have red ones-I noticed that some Lionel Modern steamers has some w/red stones-Is there any reason?

[lionelsoni]

Those lights are "classification lights". Green means that another section of the same train is following. Red means that the locomotive is at the rear end of the train. See
http://www.trains.com/Content/Dynamic/Articles/000/000/003/084zdnbu.asp

[Anonymous]

All well and good, but what did a single, scheduled train have...no marker lights on? Joe

[lionelsoni]

Yes.

[cnw1995]

By the way, you can find these 'stones' - with all sorts of uses for unpowered headlights and marker lights and the like - at scrap-booking stores as well as the bigger craft stores.

[iguanaman3]

Every postwar steamer I have seen has green ones

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Lionel's 0-4-0 switchers (1656 etc.) all had red marker jewels. So did prewar switchers.

Neil