Re: D&RGW Marker light colors

Tomstp Wrote:
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> The WP used the amber and red.
>
> I would presume the narrow gauge markers would be
> just like the Standard gauge. I have seen 3 sets
> of D&RGW marked markers and they have had red and
> green.

The D&RG used to use green and red markers, but changed somewhere around the 1920's. When many railroads were changing signal colors from White (Clear,) Green (Caution) and red to Green, yellow, and red, as we have today, some lines went the whole route and changed the marker colors, as well. ---- (Rio Grande, Santa Fe, NYC, and PRR to name a few.) Others reasoned that there was no need to change the marker colors, so left them be green and red (C&S, UP, and most.)

Until later years, flags were used as markers during the daytime .... Rio Grande had yellow flags to match the night colors.

Classification lights (not markers) on the engine have been green and white since the mid-1800's. Markers are only on the rear end of a train.

So, if you have a D&RGW model railroad depicting later than early 1920's and have red and green markers on your caboose and passenger cars, it is wrong. Notice the caboose in photo, which has been with engine 278 at Cimmaron for many yearfs.



Skip Luke
Switchman (ret): Grand Canyon Railway;
Engineer (ret): Georgetown Loop RR Inc., Sumpter Valley Ry., Monticello & Sangamon Valley;
Dispatcher(ret): Illinois Central, White Pass & Yukon, Burlington Northern Ry.
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