| Posted by Dana M. on January 23, 2017 | |
Tyler - very nice photo. Good capture and nice perspective. I'm interested to know about that "diffused" light box above the headlight at the bottom of the stack. Why did the WW&FRy put that on the locomotive, or was it built like that? Interesting to see this unique light fixture, I wonder how they use it, and what is it for?
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| Posted by Dana M. on January 23, 2017 | |
Tyler - very nice photo. Good capture and nice perspective. I'm interested to know about that "diffused" light box above the headlight at the bottom of the stack. Why did the WW&FRy put that on the locomotive, or was it built like that? Interesting to see this unique light fixture, I wonder how they use it, and what is it for?
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The "diffused light box" is for displaying a train number. I believe the headlight was installed on 9 during the Maine Central's ownership of the Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad. No. 9 was originally Sandy River RR no. 5 and Became SR&RL no. 6 after the merger of the 2 foot railroads in Franklin County, Maine. The locomotive was then sold to the Kennebec Central RR and after the KC quit the locomotive came to the WW&F.
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| Posted by Dana M. on January 25, 2017 | |
Thank you for the information Mr. Brendan Barry - that makes sense, and I now understand that it was a number board and not a special headlight. Although, it does make a good headlight for yard switching. Still a nice photo Tyler, and again thank you for the information Brendan.
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