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Re: [BRHSlist] What's a "gyra-light"?

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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] What's a "gyra-light"?
From: "Tom Barrett" <barrett@galesburg.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 07:27:23 -0600
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    Yeah your right it was neat, I lived near Vermont Illinois on the
Beardstown Mainline in the 60's and can remember my dad and I setting at the
crossing watching the reflection below Vermont coming, it brings back fond
memories. Tom
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> And it was great to watch at night from the dome of a Zephyr.
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> BRAD
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> From: "Tom Barrett" <barrett@galesburg.net>
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> >         before the yellow beacons and the ditch lights, locomotives was
> > equipped with mars lights which turned in a circular motion and made a
> > swooping effect back and forth across the sky when viewed at night as to
> > warning of a approaching train, sometimes these could be seen miles away
> > coming, some had 2 lights 1 clear for a headlight and 1 lens was red for
> if
> > the train had an emergency application of the train brakes the red one
> would
> > come on to warn approaching trains that the train they was about to meet
> was
> > in emergency. , they was pretty neat to watch from a distant on a clear
> > night.
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> > From: "wollffee" <wolfee@onebox.com>
> > To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 11:44 AM
> > Subject: [BRHSlist] What's a "gyra-light"?
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> > > The new Atlas n-scale SD-24 in red Burlington colors will have a non-
> > > operating gyra-light.  What's that?
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