Mars Lights

[Anonymous]

Mars or Gyralites?? Depends on what they bought and had installed.

Difference?? I may get this backwards (forgive me if I do), Mars was a horizontal figure 8 and Pyle was a horizontal oval (almost round).

No info on Reserve Mining.

[mudchicken]

Hopefully Sterling1 is not asking about class lights and more about the colored lenses for running second section or wrong way in 251 Current of Traffic. (which is what the 10 ATSF 5060 class SD40-2's were purchased for which had Gyralites in the nose and were the only ones so equipped, later ATSF dropped all the headlights on the SD40's into the nose and blanked the fixture above the cab)

[Anonymous]

Those 900 series CNW units with the gyralites were ex-CGW units.
Most roads that ran flat and fast South and West out of Chicago had them back in the day.
C&EI, Wabash, IC, NKP and CB&Q also come to mind.

Jimmy

[Anonymous]

CPR had Mars Lights on the Canadian as late as the mid 1970's, prior to the Via takeover.I remember how impressive they looked on the flat Canadian Prairie at 0500 on a frosty morning.

[Hugh Jampton]

QUOTE: Originally posted by whcwpg

CPR had Mars Lights on the Canadian as late as the mid 1970's, prior to the Via takeover.I remember how impressive they looked on the flat Canadian Prairie at 0500 on a frosty morning.

the Budd cars also had them

[emd_SD_60]

QUOTE: Originally posted by zardoz
There were also a few SD40's that had a gyrating light in the front. These were not original CNW units (I do not know where they came from). The locomotives that had them were in the 900 series (923, 930, etc). The light was mounted in the same location as where the CNW mounted the bell on the SD40-2's (near the top of the low nose).

I think you mean the ex-CGW ones.[;)] Whoops! Already answered!

[Anonymous]

The Chicago Great Western F's had them. I grew up in Hayfield, MN, (or got bigger anyway...never did grow up) and there was a slight hill a half mile north of the depot. I can remember the excitement I had seeing the reflection in the sky and waiting until it would break over the horizon. I gotta say that watching those things are some of my fondest memories of night train watching when I was a kid.

BTW, this is my 1st post here. Hi to all of you.

jonesey