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Post by lotus098 on Feb 1, 2007 23:43:18 GMT -5
I read the article in Model Railroader on detailing trucks. Then I read the article in Trains on the trucking industry and the railroads in the '50's. Anyways, at the beginning of the article in trains is an old picture of a truck holding up traffic; on the front of the truck are numerous license plates. Why is this? How long did trucks have to have these?
Back to model railroading, this sounds like a unique detail to add to long haul trucks on layouts. It would probably work best in large scale, where you can even make some decals for the license plates. In HO a couple carefully cut scraps of thick paper could probably simulate them pretty well.
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Post by RR Redneck on Feb 2, 2007 8:21:12 GMT -5
And in N scale, little specks of paint. LOL
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Post by pcarrell on Feb 2, 2007 10:11:05 GMT -5
Trucks had to have a plate for every state they were normally used in so that they could show that they paid taxes to that state for road repairs and such. I know this lasted well into the 70's, because I remember seeing them then. They still do it today, but it's a bit different. In the 80's they switched to stickers, and so you saw a plate on the truck with a plate next to it that had all the stickers. I think they still do it like that. I know that one of my fathers trucks can't go to Michigan because it doesn't have the sticker.
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Post by thuffman on Feb 4, 2007 16:23:46 GMT -5
Trucks today have 1 sticker per side for fuel/road taxes. As far as license plates microscale offers them in HO scale
Tom
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Post by lotus098 on Feb 6, 2007 0:26:05 GMT -5
Thanks for the info guys.
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