Nostalgia & History > Santa Fe Caboose at Pomona, Ca. 1967

Santa Fe Caboose at Pomona, Ca. 1967.
Note The Marker Lights.

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I have a "Santa Fe Left" & "Santa Fe Right" set of those with fuel pots & hanging brackets around here somewhere. They were an Adams & Westlake product. They showed a big Red to the rear, and when the train was in the clear in the siding, they had a pull pin that unlocked them and they could be rotated within the circular bracket, so the red no longer showed. I think the other smaller lenses showed amber & green. Some had the kerosene fuel pot replaced by a snap in electrical pot with a light bulb and a pigtail to plug it into an outlet near the corner of the car, as shown in the photo.

ddg Wrote:
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> I think the other
> smaller lenses showed amber & green.

The Santa Fe was a "yellow" railroad. One position was red, the other three positions were yellow.

You're probably right, I need to dig those out and see what mine have. They have the same Adams & Westlake lamp body as the Santa Fe switch lamp, but the ring is different, and the rear end marker had the large red lense.

Must have been a chilly morning--the caboose stove is smokin' it up. I remember riding an SP caboose on a former Pacific Electric line; it still had the traditional stove and a box of coal to stoke it. Smelled like the coke ovens at Kaiser Steel.