That's peculiar - I'm not sure what the difficulty is. The link worked for
me - even in the message below. Maybe I should explain: the link only takes
you to the City of Vancouver Archives photo search page, not to the specific
photos. There, you can insert either the photo number or the loco number to
find the pictures I referred to. I'm afraid that direct links to the photos
are not user friendly and I can't see much point in copying the poor quality
images on the City web site to the files site, as you'll be able to find
them pretty quickly by using the City's search engine.
Rob
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From: "rlkennedy27" <r.l.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 2:59 PM
To: <cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [cpsig] Re: 0-6-0 loco headlight
URL is incorrect. I can figure out to delete the period at the end however, the rest is not user friendly, something common with these type of archives. How about putting one of these photos in files section for anyone to easily see?
--- In cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Rob Kirkham" <rdkirkham@...> wrote:
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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