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Re: why no Dynamic Brakes? -lights
Author: HUTCH 7.62
Date: 07-02-2019 - 07:10
FUD Wrote:
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> Thinking back on it again, Hutch might have said
> "full light package" referring to the extra lights
> for push-pull operation, mainly a taillight for
> use when pushing (when did the modern practice of
> just a dim headlight on the trailing unit become
> standard?). I'm not remembering a lot more lights
> than that, or really any more lights than Caltrain
> uses now (no ditch lights either - those were
> added later). Don't remember whether they had a
> Mars light, or the flashing-headlight version -
> but they probably did, with all the grade
> crossings. I was working (not for the railroad) in
> SF when the Caltrans trains were bought, and got a
> tour on a test train.
Both locomotive, and cabcar had a gyralight and a mars light. Right up till I think 1999 or so.
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> Thinking back on it again, Hutch might have said
> "full light package" referring to the extra lights
> for push-pull operation, mainly a taillight for
> use when pushing (when did the modern practice of
> just a dim headlight on the trailing unit become
> standard?). I'm not remembering a lot more lights
> than that, or really any more lights than Caltrain
> uses now (no ditch lights either - those were
> added later). Don't remember whether they had a
> Mars light, or the flashing-headlight version -
> but they probably did, with all the grade
> crossings. I was working (not for the railroad) in
> SF when the Caltrans trains were bought, and got a
> tour on a test train.
Both locomotive, and cabcar had a gyralight and a mars light. Right up till I think 1999 or so.
