? size for railroad crossing signs

[Keusink]

Okay, I'm confused re: HO scale RR crossing signs.

The model railroad crossing signs I see with flashing red lights are about two inches tall. The plastic ones I see without lights tend to be about an inch tall. That's a big difference. Does anyone know why they are different heights? Seems to me in real life that the two types are pretty much the same height.

I am modeling the 50's. Don't recall such signs being nearly the same height as the trains, BUT, I was just a kid then.

Chris

[Keusink]

How about that?! 16 feet for flashing lights, ten feet for passive crossbucks.

Thank you, Chris