At the end of the train

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Emeraldisle

All I can say is, you are a real character![:)]

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[:D]

Hey, you gotta laugh once in a while[:D][:D][:D][:D]

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[Hey, you gotta laugh once in a while[:D][:D][:D][:D]
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Absolutely[:)][:)]

Can’t seem to get the quote thing to work right.

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Rough day at the restaurant today[?][:)][:)][:)][:)]

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Down under, (on the Victorian Railways system) we have Z vans - sort of like a caboose but cut off behind the raised part - and I include one of these at the end of each “goods” train (sorry about the terminology) but not for passenger trains.

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my gawd, sorry to wake you up. i just looked at your time of my post - 6.13 am. its 9.13 pm (same day but) down here (melbourne). anyhow, have a good one at work.
regards,
barry.

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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?