railroad-guy posted:Trainman2 posted:O scale may not fill the gap now, but it wasn't always that way. The Walthers O scale catalog used to have a much bigger variety of small items, like signals and their logigisical components like relay cabinets, battery boxes, crossing signals, and the electronics to make them work.
Today several companies still make the signals themselves, but how many relay cabinets and battery boxes can you find today? That's a shame, because in O scale, it's easier to notice that things like this are missing. In ho, these pieces are plentiful.
Have you looked at the Lineside Details from Scale City Designs ?
I have, and I like the modern signal relay cabinets, the ones that look like a big gym locker. But I don't think they have the two-level vertical stacked relay cabinets with the round-top doors, or their single-level counterparts.
I've looked for them, and find plenty in ho, but not O.
Nj International had the single-level cabinets, but not the stacked ones. I know somebody in the old Walthers catalogue had them years ago, and I'm almost sure it was them.
It's kind of ironic, in that back then, when those cases were being made, there wasn't a lot of CNJ equipment in o scale, and the CNJ, especially on the NY&LB, was a big user of the stacked relay cabinets.
Now that virtually every O Scale company makes CNJ equipment, nobody seems to be selling those details.
I know Irish Tracklayer had them a few years ago, but I'm not sure of his status.
