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There is lots of confusion in the model railroad world about markers. One or more markers are required to indicate the end of a "train", and to distinguish it from some lesser collection of engines and/or cars. Most railroad rulebooks define a "train" as "an engine, or more than one engine coupled, with or without cars, and displaying a marker or markers." A "train" may be given authority to occupy the main track outside yard limits. Markers were carried on steam locomotive tenders (often at the corners of the rear deck, sometimes from brackets on the end corners of the tank) on those occasions when the engine was used as the last unit of a "train", i.e, as a "pusher" or as the only unit of a "train", i.e, when running "light" (without cars). On other occasions, as in the most usual case of the engine pulling a "train", markers should not be displayed on the tender. If a steam engine was backing at night, and was the last or only unit of a "train", the markers were to be carried on the pilot beam, and not on the tender. The tender should in that case display a white light in the direction of movement, if leading the "train." Precision Scale makes a marker in HO (their part No 3331) on a stand which would make it appropriate for mounting either on a tender deck or on a pilot beam.
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