I model the Erie RR in the 1940's and have just completed a Russell snowplow kit (the ancient Northeastern Scale Models wood kit) and would like to install appropriate flanger signs along the ROW but I don't know what the Erie ones looked like. I know each RR used their own design. Anyone what Erie's looked like? Thanks
Hi,
I scoured four of my Erie books and could only come up with this little "teaser" of a flanger sign... but at least it's a start:
Erie by Edmund, on Flickr
The good news is Tichy has just the sign for you.
https://www.tichytraingroup.com/Shop/tabid/91/p/8181/Default.aspx
You would have to do a little trimming.
If I find anything more I'll update. I thought I had an Erie rulebook around here somewhere?
Good Luck, Ed
I just checked the Erie's Operating Rules for 1930 and 1952. There's no illustration of anything like ROW signs, just hand and color signals. I'll do some more later on. I also have a good number of Erie books, too, but going through all the photos would be a project in itself.
Russ
Modeling the early '50s Erie in Paterson, NJ. Here's the link to my railroad postcard collection: https://railroadpostcards.blogspot.com/
Looking at Ed's photo, and the flanger signs I see around here (CN/CP), I get the impression that a lot of roads use a similar style of signs, but perhaps with differing paint colours.My homemade ones are styrene, and there are quite a few of them, in various versions, around the layout. This one calls for retracted wing-blades and lifted flanger blade....
...and this one the same, but for two obstacles in quick succession...
Wayne
didn't look through this but here you are www.rr-fallenflags.org/el/bldg/ac-mws.htm
Thanks Ed, I have seen this same photo but I am uncertain just what that yellow sign is. Maybe flanger maybe not. The Tichy flanger signs are spot on for the NYCS. The PRR used a small vellow triangle (sometimes with a black dot in the middle). Thanks for the research you have done so far, let me know if you come up with anything else.
Roger
I just sorted through a stack of 8 x 10 glossies I picked up at a train show years ago. Sadly, no flanger sign in sight but a neat photo of a slow-sign at North Ave. Youngstown:
Erie railroad North Ave. Youngstown by Edmund, on Flickr
Old Charlie Paules, Crossing watchman. Wonder what he would think about being on the internet seventy-two years in the future? Today the track is gone but the Ohio Edison steam heat plant is still there as is the covered platform and warehouse on the right.
Regards, Ed