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lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) wrote:
>
>	I've reposted my BART track maps, this time as eight uuencoded
>files inside of one big file.

So, just where did you post them?  They weren't part of your posting, and
they haven't appeared separately in the newsgroup. 

>	I've corrected problems with reading them in that were caused by
>the image-file translator I had used; they should now be readable by
>any GIF viewer.
>
>	These track maps were inspired by Ronald (?) Deiter's book on
>the Washington Metro, which includes a track map of that system. From
>it, one can find out where all the crossover points are, so one can
>tell where a BART train can change tracks.
>
>	The track maps were all derived from my personal observations.
>
>	I used Aldus SuperPaint on a Macintosh to create all these
>files, saved them as PICT files, and then used the freeware utility
>XlateGraf (available from the Info-Mac archives; I got my copy from a
>CD-ROM I had ordered from Pacific Hi-Tech) to translate the files into
>GIFs.
>
>	To get around the aforementioned bug, I opened the files with
>"xv" [runs under X-windows] and saved them again.
>-- 
>/Loren Petrich, the Master Blaster
>/lip@s1.gov
>/		Happiness is a fast Macintosh
>/			 And a fast train


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In article <jfhCovByB.DM@netcom.com> jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton) writes:
>lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) wrote:
: 
: 	I've reposted my BART track maps, this time as eight uuencoded
: files inside of one big file.
>
>So, just where did you post them?  They weren't part of your posting, and
>they haven't appeared separately in the newsgroup. 

	The files have been combined into one big file over at

	alt.binaries.pictures.misc
-- 
/Loren Petrich, the Master Blaster
/lip@s1.gov
/		Happiness is a fast Macintosh
/			 And a fast train

I've been meaning to ask this question for awhile,  but just recently had
my memory jogged by some pictures...

Why is the Southern Pacific removing the "hi mount" headlights and red
emergency gyralights (on the nose) from their diesels?  In this day and
age when saftey is such a concern and ditchlights are soon to be mandatory
on all engines,  it seems very strange that the SP is actually making
a concerted effort to put *less* lights on the front of their engines.
It's especially puzzling to see this being done so frequently on a railroad
which hates to shop any of it's engines for anything but major repair.

Anyone have any insight on this?

Steve

In article <Covqpt.5D5@Dunx1.OCS.Drexel.Edu> palmersd@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu (Steven Palmer) writes:

>I've been meaning to ask this question for awhile,  but just recently had
>my memory jogged by some pictures...
>
>Why is the Southern Pacific removing the "hi mount" headlights and red
>emergency gyralights (on the nose) from their diesels?  In this day and
>age when saftey is such a concern and ditchlights are soon to be mandatory
>on all engines,  it seems very strange that the SP is actually making
>a concerted effort to put *less* lights on the front of their engines.
>It's especially puzzling to see this being done so frequently on a railroad
>which hates to shop any of it's engines for anything but major repair.
>
>Anyone have any insight on this?

  SP began removing their gyralights in ca.1985, before most US 
railroads even thought about ditchlights.  This was when SP and Santa Fe 
were preparing to merge, and Santa Fe practice at the time was the use of 
amber beacons on the engine cabs.  These beacons are a "poor man's 
gyralight," cheaper to maintain than the complex gyralights, but 
virtually useless except maybe for helping the man in the yard tower locate 
a locomotive in the yard.  Anyway, SP began adding beacons and removing the 
gyralights as engines were shopped and repainted into the SPSF colors.  
After the merger was shot down, SP continued removing the gyralights, and 
today they are nearly all gone from SP-painted power.  The first new power 
received with standard lighting packages rather than SP's classic double 
handful were the 8000-class B39-8E's, delivered in 1987.
  SP began adding ditchlights to their engines about the time the last 
GP60's were arriving.  I think I saw my first SP engine with ditchlights in 
1990, though I don't have the picture here to confirm it.  I haven't seen an 
SP engine with flashing ditchlights yet, but that's no proof that they don't 
exist.
  Meanwhile, SP has also been adding ditchlights and beacons to their D&RGW 
power, but leaving the gyralights intact.  This results in a very luminous 
beast indeed...beacon, ditchlights, headlight, gyralights, and possibly even 
classification lights in a few cases.

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