BaltACDMars light
As I recall, there are two versions of oscillating lights. One is the "888" Mars light (I've heard it explained as the "light from Mars," too), the other, the Gyralight - made by Pyle National - simply describes a circle.
You'll still find such lights on fire trucks, especially in the middle Atlantic region. They are manufactured by the Mars Signal Light Company. They turned out a number of types of lights for emergency vehicles, including the "Aurora Borealis," once favored by the Chicago Fire Department. The rotating lights on the Chicago PD vehicles in the movie "Blues Brothers" are Mars products.
Some railroads put a clear bulb in one of the positions of a Mars light, and red in the other, to serve as an emergency brake light.
At one point, ICG started using a fixture with three lamps and no moving parts. Two, white, simply alternated. The other was red.
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Can the crew replace a bulb or is that a craft boundary?
rdamonCan the crew replace a bulb or is that a craft boundary?
Which begs the question, how many engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
adkrr64 rdamon Can the crew replace a bulb or is that a craft boundary? Which begs the question, how many engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
rdamon Can the crew replace a bulb or is that a craft boundary?
They are electric powered, definitely a job for a Conductor.
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