ALL SCALES

            500,600,652, 660, and 664  LUMBER DIRECTIONS

Very carefully, remove the protective foam from the bottom of the load if it is present. HO, N loads don't have the protection. For non-permanent mounting to the flat car try Moveable Miniatures Glue or white glue in 3 or 4 spots on the bottom of the load. Prototypical loads have 2 X 4's or 2 X 6's nailed to the wide stickers on the base of the load with large 4 X’s in the stake pockets. To model this feature, glue scale 2 X 4 or 2 X 6’s the length of the load on both sides. Then, take those stakes that come with your scale model flatcar and trim them to about 2 feet and mount them in the stake pockets about every other hole. The load should now be fairly snug between the pockets. With this method glue is not needed for securing to the car and can be loaded and unloaded for operations.

            AN,ON,BN,  and RN BEACON DIRECTIONS

To install beacon, drill #78 or larger for wires in shell. If you prefer a lower base showing, drill a .050 hole taking care not to drill through the shell. Loop wires inside for wiring to board or decoder for easy removing of the shell. Beacons are polarity and amperage sensitive. For DC and DCC applications, resistors are required. 1k or 1000 ohms is a safe resistance for a 12 vt. system. The red wire is the positive connection with the green wire the negative connection. Small surface mount resistors are the best as they don’t take very little room. Resist the positive lead to the beacon. Program decoder for blinking which could be many choices depending on what decoder is used in the application.