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1: Bachmannnonoperating
HO signal. Eyecandyonour
club layout.
.
1
Static structures
Regardless of your control system, if all youwant is some
eye‐candy for the trackside, consider a simplenon-operating
display, like theBachmannunit shown infigure1. These guys
run about $10 for apackageof four and they help set the
stage. These signals provide aquick bit of scenery if this style
of signal is approximately correct for the railroad andera you
aremodeling.
Thedownside to these signals is that there is no life in them.
They just sit there. Infigure1, the foreground signal is the
basic one fromBachmann. In thebackground is the same sig-
nal with a ladder added and
appropriatepainting. This
showswhat you can accom-
plishwith abit of “signal
bashing.”
Statically lit signals
I’ve seen folksovercome
thenon‐operating signal
by installinga lit signal that
doesn’t changeaspect (color).
Forexample, one thatdis-
playsagreen lightonall the
time. TheTomar signal shown
infigure2 isanexample.
Theadvantagehere is that
manydifferent stylesof
signals areavailable from
manydifferentmanu-
facturers: BLMAModels,
IntegratedSignal Systems,
NJ International,OregonRail
Supply, andTomar are some
of themorepopular. The
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