Anyone know who produces tiny lights for steam loco markers? Some new PSC brass. BLI, and MTH locos are coming in with these installed, but apparently these firms are not interested in selling these or giving out any information as were to or how to aquire them.
HZ
I recently read on here that some caboose markers were now coming with LED’s. So I would expect that Tomar may have some tiny LED’s you may be able to use. The other choice may be to use fiber-optic cable from the markers to either the headlight or another light in the smoke box.
Are you looking for marker lights, or class lights?
Tomar has the illuminated marker lights with either 1.5 volts bulbs or 3 volt LEDs installed …
http://tomarindustries.com/acc.htm
Or, you could always make your own …
http://ssandifer.com/Lay/Howard/Const/LEDMarker/Index.htm
Mark.
I’m trying to find lighted classifacation lights for boiler fronts and rear of tenders. I’m just not sure of what term to use. I tried using Tomar caboose lights, but they were just a bit too large for an HO steam loco. On a caboose, they look great!
Many thanks for replies.
HZ
I’ve been working on a NKP 4-6-4 marker lights, using fiber optics and tri-color LED using the QSI titan to get all them extra lighting outputs. Cal-Scale (bowser) and Precision scale have markers or you just drill out the original markers and use them.
If you are looking for classification lights, then the colors you will need to display are unlighted if it is a scheduled train, white if it is an extra, or green if it is the first section of a following train.
For marker lights, I believe that red is normally displayed to the rear. The side and front lights are other colors, I think red or green but could be mistaken.
According to the following reference, “on most steam locomotives these (marker lights and class lights) were separate castings”. http://modeltrains.about.com/od/cmodelrailroadterms/g/Locomotive-Class-Lights-And-Their-Function.htm
I kind of think that on a steam loco the class lights would be on the boiler front someplace, and the marker lights would be on the end of the tender.
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/211811.aspx visit that thread to see my work in progress, I will have more updates. if your tried to correctly model caboose markers doing what I am doing, it gets more complicated, you can have red to the rear, green to the sides and front, or red one side, yellow the other side (to the rear) these indicate siding track info, I have to check up on the caboose, but there are more variations for the caboose. The markers on the tender will work same as caboose if running light or pusher, or backing up reflecting the front of the engine etc etc…