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As many of you know most switch targets in yards were always lit either by a kerosene or a electric battery but today most of them are just a metal plate with a reflector tape on them,the yard were i work got rid of the older types in the 80's because of maintance cost's are there any yards in the usa that still use the old adlake kerosene types or the western electric type.? I am not a expert on railroad cost cutting but it seems to me that they could now have all those swtich targets lit again with todays tecnology,all they would have to do is run some small wires undergroung to each switch target that would be lit with a led they could run 2000 of them with a transformer the size of a cigar box those led's usualy last for a good 10 yrs or more draw very little current i think it's in the milli amps and led's don't have a filament so the banging of cars and engines would not have any effect on them,only a deraied car falling on the target itself would cause it to malfuction,does this make any sence?
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