ultra-violet radiation.

Garden Railroading
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I origonally come from Sydney NSW Australia; which has the dubious honour of claiming to be the melonoma capital of the world, as such I have several on my fore arms and backs of my hands, they are not malignent so I don’t worry (why worry be happy). I think this is because Sydney is so close to the hole in Ozone layer over Antarctica.

However these rays do cause plastic to degrade and paint to fade or as in the case of white it goes yellow. LGB claim it will not do any damage at all to my rolling stock and give good reasons why it won’t.

But as they (LGB) come from Europe I have doubts; as I believe they just do not have the experience in this direction. I was interested to know if anyone else has got skin cancer from running their trains in the sun or if they have experienced any degradation of paint and or plastics at all

I know people who have had theirs removed and they look like they have been in a fight with an alley cat and lost.

Regards Ian; Kawana Island Tropical Railway.

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I think UV radiation has an effect, minuscule or large, on all things. I once stopped to…er… “let out water” on the road between Encinal, Texas and Freer, Texas; the bleaching bones of countless cattle caused me to cogitate on the constancy of color in any plastic or paint.

This weighs heavily on my “G scale” mind and leads me to believe that all things must, in the greatness of God’s and Nature’s elements, succumb and eventually rot.

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iandor,
LGB and others use UV “inhibitors” in the manufacture of their products. They will never get me to believe that their products won’t eventually suffer from the effects of the sun. Basically I don’t think any of us leave our rolling stock out 24/7. They know that. Under “Normal” use, whatever that is, they should last a very long time. Still not forever. I wear white in the sun here as much as possible and sunblock. So far so good. Take care. Later eh…Brian.