Re: Telltale construction

On 6/7/2008 4:38 PM fl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 spake thus:

> In article <484aee2f.16119585@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
valinis.1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
> says...
>>
>>I would like to build a few telltales as warnings at tunnel approaches
>>on my layout.  Now comes the (I hope not too dumb) question.  What is
>>the hanging part of the telltale made of?  Pictures of model telltales
>>that I have seen are ambiguous at best, and the few prototype photos
>>I've seen are so blurry and distant that they are useless for my
>>purposes.  I would think that lengths of rope would be the most
>>logical material, but I thought I'd ask before doing something very
>>unrealistic.  Thanks in advance for any replies.
> 
> Your thinking is correct, just lengths of plain ole rope.

Just curious: has anyone here ever been hit in the head/face by a 
telltale? That, after all, was their function. (Me, I've never even seen 
one in its native habitat.)


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