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Are the lights on the front of a train,,
montanajoe
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the same as aircraft landing lights??
Which is brighter??
Which is brighter??
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the train is on tracks and no need to light up a huge area besides they could not stop in time 99% of the time
Later on, I worked for a PD in the same area. Our patrol cars had spotlights on them, that allegedly were aircraft landing lights. The police car spotlights were nowhere near as bright as the locomotive lights.
A long time ago, I operated a 1953 GM diesel/electric locomotive. It had lights that would make it like daylight, a LONG way down the track. I thought it would be cool to put such lights on the front of my truck, but I found that they ran on 32 volts DC.
Later on, I worked for a PD in the same area. Our patrol cars had spotlights on them, that allegedly were aircraft landing lights. The police car spotlights were nowhere near as bright as the locomotive lights.
Yep,I remember that it was just a given that the cop cars had aircraft lights in their spotlights. True? I don't know,but they were bright. Now a train is not only bright,but is bright for a long ways. Thanks for the reply Nunn.
The FRA requires that the locomotive headlight (steady burn) used for road service have a luminous intensity of at least 200,000 candela. The headlight light focus angle in the horizontal plane in relation to the centerline of the locomotive must illuminate the track so that the locomotive engineer can identify moving or stationary objects or conditions at a distance of 244 m (800 ft) in front and ahead of the locomotive. The reduced luminous intensity (60,000 candela) and distance requirements (91.5 m [300 ft]) for railroad yard headlight operation is required to reduce excessive glare for railroad employees.
The ditch lights are to make you see the train, day or night, so you don't get hit by it. Aircraft landing lights, not as bright as you have little risk of getting hit by airplane.
To test them I only turned them on for a few seconds.
Well one night out on I-15 between Camp Pendelton and San Diego I had a car coming in the other lane that would not dim its lights. Tries flashing my Normal Highs and nothing. Hit those Aircraft Lights and He turned on his flashing Blue Lights.
For some reason he did not come after me. But when I looked at the front of my car when I got home, the grill was melted it was plastic.
Works every time.
Type of light................Visable or infrared.
Type of lamp................Xenon, short arc.
Output candlepower:
Normal......................100 million.
Overdrive..................150 million.
Beamwidth
Narrrow.....................0.5deg to 0.75deg.
Wide.........................7.0deg.
Input power requirements:
Voltage......................28 volts dc.
Current:
Nominal....................100 amperes
Overdrive.................140 amperes
Still have a bunch of airplane light bulbs on the shelf. Wagner. Used to run them on the tractors. HID and led's have made them obsolete.
I still buy the standard bulbs for my landing lights they are about 16 bucks each. The FAA approved and certified LED landing light bulbs are over 400 bucks EACH. [B)][:0]
quote:Originally posted by Captplaid
Still have a bunch of airplane light bulbs on the shelf. Wagner. Used to run them on the tractors. HID and led's have made them obsolete.
I still buy the standard bulbs for my landing lights they are about 16 bucks each. The FAA approved and certified LED landing light bulbs are over 400 bucks EACH. [B)][:0]
Holy schmoly,,[:0][:0][:0]