stop blocks
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2017 10:51 am
This query came from a modelling colleague at our Club. Any one have any suggestions?
Steve
I am currently working on a locomotive yard, similar to Ranelagh Bridge or Kings Cross Yard, with several Mike's Models LSWR-type stop blocks (buffers) at the ends of sidings.
These days, the buffer beams on siding stop blocks are white with a central horizontal red stripe but I have an idea they used to be plain red (which would certainly be easier to paint).
My layout is set around 1959 but the stop blocks could well have last seen a coat of paint much earlier than this.
Colour photos are hard to come by as, for some reason, photographers seem to have preferred to point their cameras towards the train rather than the end of the siding.
With your knowledge of industrial sidings, etc. do you know what would be correct?
Steve
I am currently working on a locomotive yard, similar to Ranelagh Bridge or Kings Cross Yard, with several Mike's Models LSWR-type stop blocks (buffers) at the ends of sidings.
These days, the buffer beams on siding stop blocks are white with a central horizontal red stripe but I have an idea they used to be plain red (which would certainly be easier to paint).
My layout is set around 1959 but the stop blocks could well have last seen a coat of paint much earlier than this.
Colour photos are hard to come by as, for some reason, photographers seem to have preferred to point their cameras towards the train rather than the end of the siding.
With your knowledge of industrial sidings, etc. do you know what would be correct?