My own little end of train red flag. Yes I know it’s out of scale for HO but it works.
OH yea! way out of scale! [(-D]. But when you need to get the local on the road, what are you gonna do!
Mike.
And that begs the question. Just how big is an end of the train red flag? 1’x1’? 2 by 2? Anyone know for sure?
Its your standard every day red flag…1’x1’
Great! Thanks. And how tall? 3 feet?
However much of the stick is left after you shut the coupler on it. [:-^]
A few years ago I saw a red flag like that at the end of a Pan Am Railway freight train in Northampton, Ma before Amtrak started running on the same track and track was upgraded… Quite surprised. Track was bad at the time and 20 mph limit. Lost the photo when PB locked up my photos.
Normally they used an EOT.
Rich
Sometimes a flag could be substituted for an EOT.
Knock on the door of the caboose and ask the conductor inside.
A scale end of train flag is about 31’ long, 9’ wide and around about 13’ tall.
It’s called a CABOOSE.
It ain’t a proper train without one of those. [8-|]
I agree. A proper train has a caboose at the tail end…
Thank goodness I went with the transitional era. [;)]
True but you might still use a flag in switching ops?
I do remember sitting on my bicycle at a former Union Station as the freight went by and seeing the red flag stuck in a boxcar coupler with a paper bag stuffed in the coupler pocket to hold the flag staff in place. Normally they used an EOT.
A couple other riders got a chuckle out of this. We use to carry our bikes across to another rail trail until a tunnel was put in under the right of way.
Rich
Still ain’t a train without a marker. You still have to have something to show it’s the absolute end. Either a red flag, reflectorized flags or “paddles” (green to front/red to rear), marker lights, or FRED/EOT. Current rules require a lighted marker at night. For many years, a flag or the reflectorized flag/paddles were allowed.
Jeff
The exception being a short line that operates one train then they not required to use a lighted marker after dark…
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On the STRATTON & GILLETTE railroad, a caboose is good enough, and it is all you will ever get.
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-Kevin
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