Did these ever have red side jewels? I've never seen an original 736 (post1951) with them. A parts dealer tried telling me that it's possible that a 736 could have come with red side jewels. I believe he's full of it. Any experts on the matter?
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Are those the marker lanterns on the boiler front sides? I have seen a Lionel late model engine with red ones, and the owner had me replace them with green ones which he thought would be better-normal.
Seems like I read that the color of them had something to do with the classification of the train. Green indicating there is more train coming behind and red indicating the last engine or train. True?
I have seen them with red. All of mine only had green. I suspect someone put the red ones in. But you never know. They did do a few odd things that surprised me. I like them both ways. Actually kinda like the red on the sides.
Only Lionel engines I ever saw with red markers were early 0-4-0 or 0-6-0 switchers. Don
my 736 has red, and I have an 50 era with red,
cjack posted:
Seems like I read that the color of them had something to do with the classification of the train. Green indicating there is more train coming behind and red indicating the last engine or train. True?
Those are classification lights. Flags were also used normally in the daytime.
Dark: Normally scheduled train, no sections following or the last section of a multi-section scheduled train.
Green: First section of a multi-section scheduled train. Other sections following will also display green, except for the final section.
White: Extra train not appearing on the schedule.
Most class lights had a moving internal lens to display either white or green. Red was not a selection and red would not be displayed on a locomotive when traveling forward anyway.
Rusty
So it seems as Lionel might have used red side markers on a few 736 locomotives.
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