Thought y'all might like an update on my old WRRS lights.

As mentioned, I recently got a "parts light" which provided the reflector, socket/mounting arm, terminal strip, and hanger elbow for the one of my pair of lights that's been patiently missing all those parts for so many years now. :TUP1 ...

Have recently come across a "parts light" which provided nearly everything I need to reassemble the (missing) innards of one of my old cast-iron WRRS lights. :Smile:

One part remaining to find is another lens retainer ring (sorry if that's the wrong term) to replace a broken original.

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Photo album update: I've got all my pics uploaded to PhotoBucket along with a few video clips. Wednesday's album of the train ride is here (with captions now added):

http://s1185.photobucket.com/albums/z349/BigTbird1974/UNION%20PACIFIC%20STEAM%20loco844%20visits%20Little%20Rock/

Later Wednesday ...

BREAKING NEWS: the planned 'display day' of UP #844 in NLR tomorrow has been cancelled, due to threat of potential Missouri River flooding between Arkansas and Cheyenne which might disrupt the return voyage of the train. Instead, #844 is now scheduled to depart North Little Rock at 8AM tomorrow ...

Just for the record, a bit more of my 'history'. Wanna be clear to the Mods and everyone else that I'm an equal-opportunity (amateur) railfan. :Smile: I don't all that much care what "brand" is on anybody's rolling stock (except for those odd 'vintage' unpainted-over relics from the past you come ...

Awesome vids, legsbluetrain!! Will you be aboard tomorrow too, or around once #844 gets to North Little Rock? It'd be fun to actually meet a "local" fellow forum member!

Tim in Little Rock

Ummm...whaaa???

Gee, I just thought it might be fun to share with y'all. I don't know anything about 'voting politics' at all that -- I didn't cast a single vote myself, personally -- the opportunity for the trip is a gift of a friend.

Sorry to have bothered y'all with what I thought might be a ...

THANKS SPL, for the further clue -- I would have guessed that's what the ditch lights were, but better to know for sure!

Thanks also for the pic of the fixture. Again, I guess, sorta what I would have expected...like everything else connected to a railroad, lots of heavy steel welded very securely ...

Thanks, guys, for the good words! So it really *is* a loco light...?! OK, that's QUITE sufficiently :cool: -- certainly a worthy addition to the collection on the shelf, no doubt! I'm glad I picked it up! :Smile:

(it does have a little minor abrasion to the lens surface, which I'd usually call ...

It's been a while since these lit up!

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