All, I clearly recall the Mars light used on the through passenger trains in late DL&W and early EL days as they came through Morristown at 50 to 60 mph. The effect was especially neat at night to see the figure "8" pattern sweeping across the landscape. This was before the door headlights on the ex-DL&W E8s units were replaced with solid doors and the headlight was moved to the nose on the DL&W units. Bill Botkin - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Pennisi" <eldispatcher72_@_yahoo.com> To: "EL Mail List" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 4:10 PM Subject: RE: RE: (erielack) oscillating lights (was: EL calendar - February photo) Listers, The Westerner and after EL, the Lake Cities, always had the oscillating headlight on when it arrived in Dover. You could spot the train headlight before it came around the curve under Salem Street. Rich Pennisi Sam Weibel <weeb_@_centurytel.net> wrote: Paul, I don't think the DL&W engineers used the lights much, In all the years of my growing up along the Scranton-Dunmore main line I believe I saw an oscillating headlight actually illuminated and working once. That was up till 1966 when I departed for service to our beloved country. The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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