I would like to briefly introduce:
I live in Germany (Dresden) and finished here as a small-volume manufacturers model railway accessories in all gauges (http://www.modeba.de). On a model railway exhibition, I was raised whether I also models for American produce. Since I have no overview of the need for these models, I ask you for help.
My models are made entirely of brass and equipped with LED. Exist in America signals that you love as a model would use? If so, what are and what the gauge should be built? I would be happy to accept your Informationan and would like to type finished.
I ask you to send me your wishes and photos and drawings with dimensions to send this so that I can implement the model.
Here my mail address: service@modeba.de
Anyway, American prototype signals that would be popular both here and in Europe, (my suggestions) Pennsylvania Color Position Light style (also used by the Norfolk and Western) the Baltimore and Ohio CPLs (In O scale please please please{Bitte bitte bitte}) General Railways Serachlight (single lamp style) or the common two and three vertical style used by a LOT of railroads.
As far as dimensions, I don’t have such info handy, but it is out there.
Just to clear up confusion, the PRR did not use color position lights. It used amber-only position lights (as did N&W until the early 60s). In some interlocking aplications after 1950 or so, Absolute Stop was indicated with two horizontal reds. The other aspects, Clear, Caution, Restricting, and Approach, used all amber, as did Stop and Proceed. Most non-interlocked Stop and Absolute Stop aspects were three horizontal amber lights as well, with a single light below indicating whether the stop was absolute.
You can read all about every type of American position-light signalling here:
Of course, one must realize that position light (color or amber-only) was/is generally confined to the eastern US, from Chicago on former PRR lines to Boston on the Amtrak Northeast Corridor, but mainly the mid-Atlantic and Northeastern states.
There are a number of American manufacturers making American-style signals in O, HO, and N scale already, so I’m wondering what sort of market research you’ve already done. What do you plan to do better such that people in this country will buy your signals instead of those by Sunrise, Tomar, Atlas, NJ International, Alkem Scale Models, etc.? I see you plan to do brass with LEDs; at least in HO and O, that’s become the defacto standard, and is becoming so in N. I just recently replaced some oversized N scale PRR position-light signals using traditional bulbs with true-scale LED PRR signals from Alkem Scale Models.
Also, in terms of finding the dimensions and photos of these signals, you should probably start with an Internet search. Producing a product in North America’s competetive hobby market will require tons of research on your part (we modelers get pickier every year!), far more than you’ll get from a few posts here in an MR forum. To add to that, your product will have to be priced such that it can compete with signals made right here in America or imported by American companies, what with the dollar being so weak right now.
The dimensions of PRR signsals (including plans and drawings) can be had in the series of books entitled Standard Plans of the Standard Railroad of the World.
Es gibt einige amerikanischen Hersteller, die Amerikaner-Stilsignale in O, HO machen, und N Skala schon, deshalb frage ich mich, welche Sorte der Marktforschung Sie schon gemacht haben. Was planen Sie, besser solch zu machen, dass Leute in diesem Land Ihre Signale statt jener durch Sonnenaufgang, Tomar, Atlas, NJ International, Alkem Skala Modelle kaufen wird, usw.? Ich sehe, dass Sie planen, Messing mit LEDS; wenigstens in HO und O zu machen, ist das wird der defacto Standard, und wird so in N. Ich habe nur kürzlich einen übe
