I am looking for the proper distance to place details such as battery boxes, signs etc from the track. I seem to remember a magazine fairly recently with such information, and I think it even included a chart with spacing for frequently used details. I tried searching the Model Railroader site, but it could have been in Scale Rails, RMC or MR. I sure wished I remembered.
Thanks for inputs
Paul
Dayton and Mad River Railroad
Man, do I feel ignorant. It was right in front of my face in the November issue of MR. I looked through that issue quickly twice, and just blew past the page with that table of clearances that I was looking for. Perhaps the problem was that I had not filed that copy yet as it was still to new and I was looking for an older magazine.
Dayton and Mad River RR
train18393 wrote: Man, do I feel ignorant. It was right in front of my face in the November issue of MR. I looked through that issue quickly twice, and just blew past the page with that table of clearances that I was looking for. Perhaps the problem was that I had not filed that copy yet as it was still to new and I was looking for an older magazine. PaulDayton and Mad River RR
Yeah, that is useful information. Perusing SP Lines Common Standard Plans volume 1 (Steam Age Equipment Co., publisher), covering mid-twentieth century practices, I noted the following.
Distant-warning sign, stop sign, yard-limit sign, flanger sign: 13 feet from track center, 9 feet tall (vs. 11.5 feet from track center per MR table.)
Fouling point sign, derail sign: 13 feet from from track center, 4.5 feet tall (vs. 11.5 feet from track center per MR table.)
Searchlight signal: 9.5 feet from track center (vs. 10.5 feet per MR table.)
Relay box: 10 feet from track center to near side of relay post.
Freight platforms at stations: 7.25 feet from track center.
I presume some of these clearances would need to be adjusted if there was a close parallel track, assuring sign was not in a drainage ditch, and so on.
So if you are modeling a particular railroad and time period, it may be worthwhile to get actual data for it.
Mark