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I've been working on a Conrail RS11, specifically  7651.   I am trying to determine what the actual warning stickers are so I can apply the decals to my model before I go through to the next step of weathering and sealing it all in.

I actually started with an undecorated model (originally intending to do a CR patch out of a PC black unit),  and  so I tried to "correct" some of the differences between the stock RS11 and the prototype (Atlas offered this very same unit many moons ago RTR).  in particular,  I removed a door from the short hood,  installed the grab irons on the appropriate side, and I removed the original horn mount on the model.  I've got a few extra grab irons, antennas and other details to add, but  for the most part the shell is ready to go.

The problem is that it looks a little TOO blue to me.   The prototype  definitely had  some warning stickers,  but I'm having a hard time determining what they are.   Even though the red stickers stand out,  what they actually say is really hard to determine.   Most decal instruction sheets use  EMD or GE locomotives as their example, not Alcos or RS11s.   

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Its a safe bet that  the stickers just behind the cab are "high voltage" stickers of some kind since that appears to be where the generator is on these locomotives.    In particular,  on the left side short hood there is a warning of some kind,   and  there appears to be an extra warning sticker on the right side long hood behind the cab next to what I assume is the high voltage warning sticker.   I'm assuming  the stickers beneath the cab are fuel related.

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Does anyone have any guidance or ideas what  might be the appropriate stickers?    I realize this may seem like a silly rivet counting question,  but I am also just curious  regardless. 

Christian Brown,
New Jersey Under Wire June 1979

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