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Some of them have a continuous duty cycle. It has to do with the way the drive motors are made. A Thunderbolt definitely because the head is cooled by the air from the blower, which has a continuous-rated motor.

douro20 wrote:...A Thunderbolt ... has a continuous-rated motor.

Didn't know the blower was so rated.
Thank you, douro.

Robert, Is the white light on? If the little white light was not on then no power was comming to the relay box. he lights are deactivated. Also, wouldn't that be risky? You could cause some idiot to rearend someone looking for trains.

q2bman wrote:Robert, Is the white light on? If the little white light was not on then no power was comming to the relay box. he lights are deactivated. Also, wouldn't that be risky? You could cause some idiot to rearend someone looking for trains.

This was just before midnight.
I waited until no vehicles were in sight.
(As a "Green" person, I would not have wanted anyone to even slow and ruin momentum which would waste fuel and create a little more pollution.)

I don't remember even seeing the relay box.
Do those gray relay boxes always have the white light?

As a child exploring the PRR crossing in Lewistown, PA, I recall that the "little porch light"]0[ went out when the train activated the crossing (o)T(o) signals.
OR did the light come on when they activated??

What was surprising was that this track in Santa Fe Springs, CA emerged from nowhere, then abruptly ended after crossing the four-lane road and sidewalk.

When the RXR signals activated, they also changed the traffic signals.
This was at "T" intersection.
I'll try to find it on Google Earth. It should be visible.
P.S. It is a track which curves left off the main line which I have taken from L.A. Union Station to San Diego.

I know I'm contributing to the hijacking of this thread, but in my area the railroad control boxes used to have a small, round glass lens about 3" diameter with a yellowish-white light inside. A few years ago, they replaced this light with a larger one on top of the cabinet that looks like a fender-mounted turn signal for a semi, except that the lens is clear. The box stood just two blocks from where I would have installed Corvallis' old Thunderbolt, if my town had gotten it instead of Astoria.

A Thunderbolt definitely because the head is cooled by the air from the blower, which has a continuous-rated motor.

Just what in the "head" needs to be cooled by the blower?

Just what in the "head" needs to be cooled by the blower?

The chopper motor. It's cooled by the same air which is blown into the chopper by the blower.

Finally, a classic thats being put back into service.

Wow! You must be some kind of god! You've resurrected a thread!

Anyways, I'm not so sure that it would be going back into service so soon. The damage that was potentially caused by the pranksters could be severe, and may take a while to fix.

StonedChipmunk wrote:Wow! You must be some kind of god! You've resurrected a thread!

Anyways, I'm not so sure that it would be going back into service so soon. The damage that was potentially caused by the pranksters could be severe, and may take a while to fix.

What, do you consider a god what they did from Initial-D The Movie? "A god is a normal person that can do things normal people can't" Well I'm just a normal person after all. But all they'd have to do really is get a new control box for it. And that isn't that hard is it?