Re: Searchlight Failure?
Author: Pdxrailtranist
Date: 07-05-2015 - 13:50
OPRRMS Wrote:
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> Pdxrailtransit Wrote:
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> > Was wondering if there has ever been a
> documented
> > case of a train crash due to the mechanical
> > failure of the lens mechanism on a searchlight
> > signal.
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> The rear-end collision on the SP at Marne (City of
> Industry/Pomona, Southern California area) back in
> the Sixties comes to mind.
Any more details? This would probably be an intermediate signal? This used to be my neck of the woods.