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RE: RE: (erielack) oscillating lights (was: EL calendar - February photo)

If you look at those photos I sent you of the final run of The Phoebe Snow you will see the second section stopped at Dover with the upper headlight on.  It was not oscillating at that time but I believe it could move in a figure eight pattern if turned on.
The red lens on these units and on the passenger F3's was always off to one side.  The F's seemed to loose their oscillating lights very early in the merger.  It is interesting to note how a lot of railroads seemed to remove this option.  When I first moved to Virginia and Southern was still running The Crescent, I noticed they removed the oscillating headlight as well usually moving the headlight to the upper position and blanking out the door headlight.

Ed



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From: Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul) [mailto:paultup_@_alcatel-lucent.com]
Sent: Thu 1/31/2008 5:10 PM
To: EL Mail List
Subject: RE: RE: (erielack) oscillating lights (was: EL calendar - February photo)
 
First off, I thought the red bulb on the upper headlight was an
emergency light that only came on if the train brakes were put into an
"emergency" application, and it wasn't used at any other time?

Second of all, how well did the oscillating light work. Was it even used
at the end, or was it simply fixed?

	- Paul


> The Erie way to fix the oscillating upper head light was to 
> not buy it in the first place.
> 
> Randy Brown
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> I think the upper headlight in the E oscillated.  There was 
> also a red lens that could be moved across the beam, if 
> necessary.  The Erie way to fix this if it malfunction would 
> be to take it out of service.  It's interesting to note 
> though, that most of the DL&W E's made it to the end with the 
> oscillating headlight.  I wounder if it was ever used in 
> freight service.
> 
> Ed Montgomery

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