O Scale Motor Vehicle Chronicle Jan15

Nice stuff. If I modeled any  type of town (instead of the extremely rural area I do model), I'd be making orders for all that stuff right now. Too many people want to focus everything on the 'transition era' but they often forget that infrastructure would go back many years or decades. That means plenty of pre-war things all over the place.

Nice use of yellow stop signs. So many people forget that they weren't red all along. I've been toying around with making one with scale 'cat eye' reflectors, using tiny marker light lenses laid out in a pattern to look something like this when I'm done:

But even in O scale, it's very tiny work...

Somebody once said on here when stop signs went from yellow to red, and I have forgotten.  I have to admit I did not even notice the changeover.

A web site I checked says standardized on yellow from the 1920's until the early 1950's when red with reflective materials became available.

Does anyone know when mail boxes changed from green to blue?

Scotie

Scotie posted:

A web site I checked says standardized on yellow from the 1920's until the early 1950's when red with reflective materials became available.

Does anyone know when mail boxes changed from green to blue?

Scotie

In New York State stop signs changed from yellow to red in the late 1950s

That stop sign color change was just when I was beginning to drive...  I knew I needed green model mailboxes.  Another question might be, "When were railroad highway crossing crossbucks standardized. or were they?  I can't remember if I actually saw horizontal "Look Out for the Cars". signs, or just saw photos of them

Speaking of street lamps, MTH was blowing these out for ten bucks a set at York. I only bought one set because that was all I could use on my layout, but it was a great deal. (The maintenance kit on the right was the same price, if I remember correctly). 

Mailboxes changed from green to blue in 1955.

Neal Jeter