This question is for everyone modeling present day, up to the minute:
The Federal Railroad Administration is requiring yellow reflectors along the sills of locomotives and also on freight cars. Microscale just came out with a "Minical" sheet of nothing but yellow rectangular stripes to fill this need. (Some railroads like UP are using a solid yellow reflective stripe).
I had two ex-BN BNSF patch locomotives that I went through and put the Microscale decals on. It was a pain but it makes them look more realistic.
How many of you are going to go through this effort as well?
I'll wait and see how my prototype (Willamette & Pacific, now Portland & Western) handles it and probably follow suit.
So yeah, I probably will be, eventually.
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MisterBeasley wrote:Only if the FRA makes the rules retroactive to the 1960's.
Actually it would look pretty silly on my 1925 era layout ...............
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
That thought has crossed my mind cause I see that on some trains here, but it seems that they are few and far between. CSX and NS around here. So maby so just one or two though
J.W.
I don't know how a yellow stripe would look on a southern locommotive.
-dekruif
I will but i haven't seen any as of yet, any photos would be helpful since I'm building a freelanced Road in black gold and red
The new Athearn ethanol tank cars already have them. They look excellent. I model early/mid nineties, and I've been a good boy so far in puchasing equipment for my era, but those tanks have been callin' my name since they came out.
Richard
BNSF4ever wrote:The Federal Railroad Administration is requiring yellow reflectors along the sills of locomotives and also on freight cars.
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Not to belabor the obvious, but the U.S. FRA doesn't have jurisdiction...
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September 1964)
BNSF4ever wrote:(Some railroads like UP are using a solid yellow reflective stripe).
This is true for the locomotives. The freight cars have rectangles in a few places along them.
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dekruif wrote:I don't know how a yellow stripe would look on a southern locommotive.-dekruif
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Modelling the 1980s... but some of the cars I have already have reflective patches. As far as I recall these are mainly Wisconsin Central boxcars - by Roundhouse(?).
Does anyone know when reflective patches first appeared???