Re: [CBQ] Cuckoo clock [1 Attachment]

["Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

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Jonathan:

What research I have done on this subject shows that the Burlington apparently developed two different headlight designs at about the same time -- sometime around 1905 -- with the so-called cuckoo clock being one of them.  Both were originally designed as oil lamps, and the attached image of D-4-A Consolidation 3146 at Sheridan, Wyo., in 1908 clearly shows the vent for the kerosene burner on the rounded top of the headlight.  Railroads, including the Q, were still ordering locomotives with oil headlights as late as the early 1910s; Colorado, one of the first states to mandate electric headlights, did not institute that requirement until 1912.  I have no idea where the Q fabricated these headlights (Aurora seems likely), but both of the designs were in widespread use until around 1920, when the cuckoo clock design seems to have won out (presumably since the sides and top were one piece of metal, whereas the other design required a separate top), and by that time both were being fabricated strictly as electric lights.  The cuckoo clocks continued to be applied to locomotives until the early 1930s, when the Sunbeam light, in a couple of versions, became the standard.  Many of the cuckoo clock lights lasted long after that time, particularly on smaller power used primarily on branches, and a few examples lasted into the 1950s.  Several examples still exist today, including the tender backup light on CB&Q K-10 Ten-Wheeler 967 at Pioneer Village in Minden, Neb., and on C&S narrow gauge 2-8-0 60 on display in Idaho Springs, Colo.

Hol

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Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 7:19 AM
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Subject: [CBQ] Cuckoo clock

 

 

When was the Cuckoo clock headlight introduced? Was it electric from the start or converted?
Thanks!
Jonathan

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CB&Q 3146, Sheridan, Wyo., 1908, Corbin-Wagner coll..jpg

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Posted by: Hol Wagner <holpennywagner@msn.com>

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