At the end of the train

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Whats at the end of you model trains?
[:)][:)][:)]

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I can only asume when you say ETD you mean marker lights on the pasenger trains too. With my modern time period thats what I’ve got with old caboose’ on work trains now.

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Quite a few of my trains still run with cabooses…whether it’s a cupola type, bay window, or transfer hack.

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Cotton Belt mostly used bay windows so thats what I use.
But they did run a wide vision and theres on at the local hobby shop that I got my eye on.

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At the end of MY trains could be anything but most often a combine as most of my trains are small mixed trains.

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I’m not a high tech guy but after observing my caller telephone ID flashing I came up
with this simple manual FRED/EOT. with radio shack parts…

  1. Blinking red led, 2.8 volt, can be CLEAR or RED, part # 276-308, $1.80 .
  2. Flush mounted slider switch, can be SPDT or SPST(pkg of two), part #275-409A, $2.00
    3)Aaa battery hardness clip enclosed in case, part # 270-414, $1.20
    4)Two Aaa batteries.
    5)Doubled sided tape to mount battery case on car floor.
    6)Two screws/nuts to mount slider switch(2-56’s) which can be side mounted.
  3. Drill a hole just above the coupler to seat the bulb.
    Can be expanded to Aa operation providing you can find a double Aa battery metal clip holder
    with a connecting snap cap.

Adds 2 1/4 oz to the car.

Yap, there’s a better way but this is my way.

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Mostly an EOT or nothing at all, sometimes an old cupola-type van as a rider car. My road is set after the last functioning vans disappeared in Canada.

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You guys are all sick. Everyone knows, you put a cute little blond at the end of the train, holding a sign, that says “End of this here train”[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

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I don’t have any “end of train” devices. I do have the different caboose styles for each of the roads I currently have (SP, ATSF, UP, etc)

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Actually, I have all three types of cabooses, but as I model the transition era, no EOT devices.

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i coudn’t pick more than one type. I run with wide vision and bay window cabooses(cabeese) on my developing switching layout. it creates additional moves and headaches.

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I like battery powered EOT, marker lights or tail lights depending on the prototype. I tried some track power lights and they require more service and maintenance. I have some fiber optics but they are dim. Lindsay

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Actually, both cupola and bay window cabooses.

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The Poll needs an “other” option… How about a dummy diesel helper?

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Puckdropper…interesting nickname…are you a hockey referee ???
regards \ Mike

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All my freight trains have a caboose on the end.
I’m still undecided on my passenger train though.
Brian

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I’d put F units on that passenger train… A set at the front, and an A or C model in the back.

Btw, robmik, I’m not a hockey referee, the nick name came from when I dropped the puck after a goal (but didn’t ref) in a league I was too young to skate in.

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Bay window cabeese, because I like the look. That’s one advantage of freelancing a road.

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I still like the BLOND idea[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

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my layout is still under constuction ( had to start over agin, the darn edges on the foam core board sheets that I used for a top started curling when I painted them ) but I pan to run wide vision, coupla, and bay windows. anything that the Rock Island , M-K-T , Frisco , or Kansas City Southern ran between 1955 and 1977.

Alex in the sooner state