Ah, yes, now I know. When I was returning to Denver on the
California Zephyr from Glennwood Springs, I could see it from the
lounge dome, flashing back and forth on the sides of the grade cut.
I always thought they did it to scare deer off the tracks!
--- In BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com, "Tom Barrett" <barrett@g...> wrote:
> 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.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "wollffee" <wolfee@o...>
> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 11:44 AM
> Subject: [BRHSlist] What's a "gyra-light"?
>
>
> > 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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