Bumpers: anybody build their own?

Plans to make various prototypical styles have appeared in the model magazines, periodically, for decades.  I would prefer any of those in appearance to most of the commercial ones I have seen from tinplate mfrs.  Odd that I don't remember seeing an ad for or a kit for one.

These are scale sized Hayes type bumpers. white metal kit

I made the ones on the club layout car float from surplus ties. On another spur, it's a mound of dirt. I'm not a big fan of the plastic ones as they haven't held up well. If I had it to do over again, I'd get the white metal kits Doug used or use Hayes wheel stops.

I took a length of tubular track that was missing the insulation on the end tie (which was then removed), cut the center rail after the middle tie, and bent the other 2 rails in an x shape. Quite effective, and as I recall, the real railroads used to do tha same thing in some cases.

So..who makes/made those Hayes style bumper kits?  For variety, and for little used sidings, one might well use piled ties, a dirt pile, etc.  These are one of the details that get lost in the big picture when tramping around a railroad site....and something I don't remember to photograph.

colorado hirailer posted:

So..who makes/made those Hayes style bumper kits? 

Tomar makes the Hayes wheel stops.

Bowser made both the Hayes and the bent rail style stops, too.

Laidoffsick posted:

These are scale sized Hayes type bumpers. white metal kit

 

Des Planes Hobby Shop offers the same style as a brass solder-together kit. They turn out very nice when painted & weathered.

I made a few for my superstreets bump and go trolley. need to fine detail, will have a light flashing.  I could find one for these and that bump and go has force!  I made it strong! screwed base to platform.

Bumpers are wheels stops HERE

Redshirt:

Take look at the attached article - http://nebula.wsimg.com/6ecf49...=0&alloworigin=1

If the direct link does not work then - 

http://www.modelstructuresinc....truct-community.html and scroll down to Wood and Plastic bumpers.

I have just bought some red lamps. I plan to attach them to the bumpers, solder the wires to Atlas rail joiners and attach to the track.

Joe

I have noticed that bumpers like that can damage couplers pretty easy. Lately on non-3-rail layouts, I've been seeing end-of-track protection in the form of two vertical posts coming out of the benchwork, which the coupler passes between them.

For my On30 layout, I've bought some of the clap-on crescent-shaped metal wheelstops to solder to the ends of a couple of my sidings. Haven't put them in place yet but they're be far more likely than a big device like those above in a short line narrow-gauge line... I plan on sticking some ties into the end of two other spurs at angles as that kind of thing was pretty common then...

I made these, not for the layout, but as bumpers for my storage shelves. I used Ross railroad ties which are available as parts from them.

Installed on the shelves.

I

They're strong enough to work on the layout too. They're screwed down to the shelves so it would take a pretty hard impact to break through. The joints are all cross-lap and held with Aleen's Tacky Glue.