Thanks for answering that Ray. I can imagine that sort of problem on yard
tracks with rows of steel sided equipment. For my eyes, rainy nights on
Vancouver streets create that same problem even now with over-bright
headlights used on some cars. Back in the yard, I wonder whether locomotive
headlight glare would have posed the same difficulty in an earlier time when
wood sheathing had been the norm. I've never seen any documents describing
these headlights or the union effort to have conventional headlights
replaced with a dimmer model.
For the modelers out there, have any of you re-motored or otherwise modified
or detailed the Van Hobbies U3e model? I'm looking for ideas and
techniques.
Rob Kirkham
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From: "Ray & Myrna" <rmmatthews@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 1:47 PM
To: <cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [cpsig] 0-6-0 loco headlight
Rob and all,
You are right, this was NOT a wartime headlight. They were first applied in the mid-1930s to yard engines as a result of union requests. I was told with the fog and rain often prevalent around the lower mainland it was quite difficult for engineers to see the switchmen's lantern signals with the reflected glare from a normal headlight. This type of headlight was applied to any 0-6-0s (6100, 6200s), 0-8-0s (6800, 6900s), or 2-8-0s (3400, 3500s) that were assigned to yard switching duties right up to the end of steam operations.
Ray Matthews
----- Original Message ----- From: Rob Kirkham
To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 7:38 PM
Subject: [cpsig] 0-6-0 loco headlight
Does anyone have close up photos or dimensional drawings for the small headlights used on some yard locos. The variety I am interested in look remotely like a large film camera and were mounted to the front of or just over the smokebox. A version can be seen by searching by photo number or loco number, for example 6294, which is CVA 447-578.1, http://vancouver.ca/ArchivesSearch/SearchPhotos.aspx.
This is different from the tapered cowl headlamps one sees on other locos and I associate with WWII. Interestingly, CVA 447-575 and other photos show 6252 and other locos years before WWII yet also sporting the headlight. So (even though I used to think it was a wartime headlight) I guess it isn't!
I'm trying to modify a U3e switcher model to match #6294 in 1946. Has anyone done any work like that? Such as beefing up the sand domes?
Any help appreciated.
Some variants and others that may be worth comparing:
CVA 447-575 - 6252
CVA 447-576 - 6255
CVA 447-576.1 - 6255
CVA 447-577 - 6262
CVA 447-578 - 6294
Rob Kirkham
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