On the “new” unmanned Remote Control Locomotives, I have seen “Status Lights” vertically aligned on the sides of the cab to alert operators and others away from the equipment to the status of what the equipment is currently doing. Has anyone seen a standards for this?
The lights are (top to bottom) “on”, brakes released, throttle, direction of movement (2 lower lights).
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That is what I’m talking about. Is this a “standard”?
Are you saying -
Green - Brakes released
Red - throttling up
White - shown on direction of movement
Please explain each light further, your statement wasn’t totally clear to me.
As I asked, is there a written standard for this? I went searching yesterday and couldn’t find the right question to ask, to get the right answer? I did learn the lights are called “Status Lights”.
on the one I showed, there are 5 lights…so I believe green = on (Under RCL), red = brakes released, white=throttle, and the 2 blue show direction…
Thank you, I missed the bottom light.
That is intresting,
I missed the lights altogether, one of the new remote control switchers is one I would like to make a model of.
smokeboxI’ve had an idea of getting the 45 tonner going, maybe even r/c’d and batteries for operations, and felt that it might be fun to show it as an unmanned piece of equipment with remote controls. Might be a fun unit to use on the “Timesaver”. Just the brain wanting more data to fill up the empty space.
Should be easy to do with 5 LEDs. Lets see. The directional ones you’d wire for direction. The red “release” one youd have to have on in both directions while moving. The green “on” is on all the time. The only tricky one is the white “throttle” one. I wonder how we’d do that? I would think we’d need to sense throttle changes…
Hmm…
You guys need a hobby…
Bart Salmons said:I hear model trains is a good one.
You guys need a hobby.......
Bob McCown said:I don't know, lots of crazy people there trying to solve the World's problems.Bart Salmons said:I hear model trains is a good one.
You guys need a hobby.......
I stumbled upon this thread while looking around the forums, thought I’d throw in my .02 worth. The RCL units we use on BNSF in the NW are either equipped with the older CANAC RCL system or the newer GE RCL (for some reason the GE’s are only used for the hump since they interface with the hump speed controller). Anyways, the CANAC system just have one amber strobe light mounted on the cab roof to indicate when in remote. The GE system’s have 2 amber strobes, one mounted on the outside edges on each side of the cab. Not as visually interesting as the RC’s used by industrial operations, but are a bit easier to model.
Modeling wise, the CANAC system’s also have an interesting arrangement of antenna’s for the remote gear. I have a bunch of photo’s I’ve taken at work that I can post up if anyone’s interested. Another given for remote’s is the signage put up to warn people. The one’s around our yards are lime green and say: “warning” “remote control locomotives operate in this area, cabs may be unoccupied”.
A sign like this???
That’s how they look out here in the midwest…
I think I need one that says:
“Warning” “Remote control locomotives operate in this area, engineers may be pre-occupied”.
What on earth would the engineers be doing???
Well…you just never know what they’re up to…
I hope you ID’d them… Some look a little too young…
hehehe
They’ve aged since then…
I wonder where they are today?