MArk
Even if a lot of us have a color deficincy, most of us use paints that have the colors printed on
them. IF you select red/green use caboose red and burlington green and you will be OK.
Ed Scullin
Roanoke VA
--- Mark Lewis <mflewis@...> wrote:
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Fundamentally, any kind of color coding is a bad idea. Approximately
12% of the male population has serious deficits in color vision,
mostly along the red-green axis. In about 3% actual color perception
casts the entire spectrum into what people with normal color vision
would call either yellow or blue. All this is complicated by the fact
that most of the people with deficient color vision are not aware of
their problem.
I would urge the Z-Bend participants to develop an identification
method that uses color only for redundancy.
Mark
On Jan 7, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Ztrack@... wrote:
In a message dated 1/7/08 10:10:08 AM, bnbs@... writes:
Just curious. What is a bolster pin?
The bolster pin holds the car trucks to the car body. The concept of
for the
chart is that club members sign up for color positions. This way, if
you are
running trains and mix and matching members cars, it is easier to
determine who
own the car by the color of the pins. We find this very invaluable
during
shows when a lot of cars can be moved around in a weekend. The
bolster was choses
since every car has two. If you color position in red/yellow, paint
one
bolster red, the other yellow to mark you car.
Ztrack does maintain the official color chart. We encourage club
members to
sign up for color positions, especially if you are planning to
attend and
participate in shows such as NTS that may see a number of different
operators on
the layouts at any one time.
Any cars that do not have painted bolsters become the official
property of
Ztrack Magazine. The chart says so! LOL!
Rob
Ztrack Magazine Ltd.
6142 Northcliff Blvd.
Dublin, OH 43016
phone/fax: (614) 764-1703
www.ztrack.com
www.ztrackcenter.com
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