09-24-2010, 04:33 PM
ocalicreek Wrote:There was one entry for whom I did NOT vote, and it was Wayne's shanty - all because of those garish yellow handrails. Fantastic craftsmanship and ingenuity of design, but YELLOW?? You had me cheering all the way through the thread until that point. Oh well.
No problem, Galen - I didn't vote for me either (never do).
The two shanties with the yellow railings are slated for Erie Northshore crossings and are both located between tracks. Parent road EG&E (it's their paint scheme used on the shanties) specified the handrails to prevent the flagmen from exiting the shanty directly onto the tracks. Northshore employees found the yellow paint "somewhere" and added it as their own stamp of individuality.
Wayne