NEB&W Guide to Scenery Details - Table of Contents

Last Update: 2009-11-19

Scenery, Structures & Details Table of Contents

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• Rural Details
• Backyard Details
• Depot Details
• Loading Dock Details
• Construction Site Details
• Urban & Downtown Street Details
• Roads, Streets, & Sidewalks
  • Grade Crossings
  • Grade Crossing Details
• Telephone Poles
• Fences & Railings
  • Highway Guardrails
• Track Details
  • Signals
• Figures
• Vehicles
• Paint
• Signs
• Misc. Details

By details, I mean the separate items added to the scenery. Detailing of structures is discussed under Components. There is a fuzzy line between the two, and I'll try to cross reference wherever possible.

Rural Details

• Animals
• Horses
• Milk Cows
• Milk Cans
• Chickens
• Rabbits
• Windmills
• Beehives
• Haystacks & Bales
• Tractors
• Other Farm Equipment
• Wheelbarrows
• Rural Mailboxes
• Fences & Railings
• Farm Fields

Backyard Details

• Introduction
• Hammocks
• Bird Baths, Bird Houses, Dog Houses & Other Animal Thingamabobs
• Lawn Mowers
• Wheelbarrows
• Religious Icons
• Lawn Decorations
• Garden Pools
• Outside Furniture
• Flower & Vegetable Home Gardens
• Trellises & Arbors
• Garbage Cans
• Backyard Swimming Pools
• Clothes Lines
• Garden Hoses
• Barbecuing
• Bicycles
• Children's Toys, Etc.
• Playground Equipment
• Playing Fields
• Outhouses/Privies
• Gazebos
• Tree Houses
• Fences & Railings
• References

Depot Details

• Posters
  
• Luggage
• Baggage Wagons
• Ladders
• Milk Cans
• Platforms
• Platform Lights
• Depot Fencing
• Station Signs
• Benches
• Train Order Boards
• Mail Cranes
• Railroad Outhouses
• Telephone Boxes
• The Grounds
• Loading Dock Details
• Paint Schemes

Loading Dock Details

• Loading Docks Design
• Baggage Wagons
  
• Electric Tractors
  
• Fork Trucks
  
• Manual Lifts
  
• Portable Conveyors
• Skids
  
• Pallets
  
• Crates
  
• Barrels
  
• Cardboard Boxes
  
• Steel Drums
  
• Platform Scales
• Milk Cans

Urban & Downtown Street Details

• Introduction
  
• Phone Booths
  
• Street Signs
  
• Stop Signs
• Fire Hydrants
  
• Urban Mail Boxes
  
• Traffic Lights
  
• Red, Yellow & Green
  
• Street Lights
  
• Utility Poles
  
• Walk - Don't Walk Signs
  
• Hitching Posts & Other Horse Fixtures
  
• Fire Alarm Boxes
  
• Police Call Boxes
• Parking Meters
  
• Clocks
  
• Trash Receptacles
  
• Sidewalk Elevators
• Mystery Fixtures
• Trees
• Manhole Covers & Grates
  
• Urban Rock Castings
  
• Mini-Scenes

Street Lights

• Introduction
  
• Gas Lights
  
• Column Lights
  
• "Dangle" Lights
  
• Aluminum Fixtures
  
• Troy
  
• Typical Streetlight Practice, 1945
  

Grade Crossings

• Location
• Type
• Prototype Examples
• Metal Grade Crossings
• Rubber Grade Crossings
• Grade Crossing Details

Grade Crossing Details

• Flagman's Signs
• Crossbucks & Other Signs
• Advanced Warning Signs
• Crossing Gates
• Single-Story Grade Crossing Shanties
• Elevated Gate Towers
• Wig-Wags
• Banjo Signals
• Crossing Flashers
• Auto-Stop
• Private Road Crossings
• Cattle Guards

Crossing Gates

• Introduction
• Pre-1916
• Stripe Colors
• Gate Design
• Raised Gates
• Models
• Addendeum
• Automatic Gates

Telephone Poles

• Urban Utility Poles

Fences & Railings

• Introduction
• Stone Walls
• Split Rail
• Post & Rail
• Picket Fences
• Board Fences
• Basketweave Fences
• Railroad Right-Of-Way Fencing
• Depot Fencing
• Snow Fences
• Cattle Guards
• Stockpens
• Barbed Wire
• Chain Link Fence
• Cast Iron
• Stoop Railings
• Grapestakes
• Highway Guardrails
• Other Fences
• Reference

Highway Guardrails

• Wood Posts
• Wood Fence
• Concrete Posts & Cable
• Armco Flex-Beam Guardrail

Track Details

• Bumpers
• Switch Stands
• Interlocking
• Car Retarders
• Track Pans
• Flange Oilers
• Derails
• Grade Crossings
• Handcar Setouts
• Dragging Equipment Detectors
• Blue Flags/Lanterns
• Trackworking Equipment
• Right-of-Way Details

Right-of-Way Details

• Signals
• Mile Posts
• Flanger Signs
• Whistle Posts
• Ring Posts
• Section Signs
• Cattle Guards
• Telltails
• Mail Cranes
• Telephone Boxes
• Rail Racks
• Spare Ties
• ACI Scanners
• Hot Box Detectors
• Rock Slide Detectors
• Railroad Right-Of-Way Fencing
• Snow Fences
• Snow Sheds
• Culverts
• Yard Lights
• Car Pullers
• Interlocking
• Misc.

Signals

• Introduction
• Red, Yellow & Green
  
• Signal Operations
  
• Ball Signals
• Semaphores
• Banjo/Hall Signals
• Searchlight Signals
• Other Types
• Signal Boxes
• Bracket Masts
• Signal Bridges
• Train Order Boards
• Interlocking
• Dispatcher's Panels

Paint Colors

• General
• From our Scenery, Structures & Details Book
  • Colors
  • Paint Development
  • Early Victorian Paint Schemes
  • Late Victorian Paint Schemes
  • Beaux Arts Paint Schemes
  • Art Deco Paint Schemes
  • Primer
  • Boo For Blue
  • Green
  • Orange & Green
  • Double Painting
• Railroad Structure Paint Schemes

Signage

• Introduction
  
• Troy Laundry
  
• Uneeda Biscuit
  
• Mail Pouch Tobacco
  
• Model Signs
  
• Graffiti
  
• Neon Signs
• Highway Signs

Highway Signs

• Billboards
  
• Burma Shave Signs
  
• Route Signs
  
• Colored Signs
  
• Stop Signs
  
• Sign Posts
  
• Grade Crossing Signs

Brand Names

• Animal Crackers
• Baby Ruth
• Chiquita Bananas
• Coca-Cola
• Cracker Jack
• Mary Jane's
• Oreo Cookie
• Pepsi-Cola
• Spam
• Tootsie Roll

Misc. Details

• American Flags

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