Steam Locomotive N430 headlight

[WeGotAir]

G'day mates,

Here is my dad and his prized steamy headlight from a VR N class loco, 430. This locomotive hauled the museum train all over Victoria in 1956 when British Royalty visited Australia.

He's proudly got it displayed after many years in storage and it sits above my Suez Canal searchlight in his workshop's lounge.

Cheers, Alex

"We Got Air"

[FDDMS-er]

Lights that are "self-contained" (which usually eliminates flush-mounted lights) make for neat displays. I wish I had kept a few of the locomotive lights that I owned off and on over the years, but too many of them were a royal pain that required more bracket or stand fabrication than I wanted to do, and the rest were sold piecemeal to finance other interests.

Tom Aker had - maybe still has - a new-old-stock backup headlight for an F or E unit, and that type is one of the few "almost steam-era," self-contained diesel locomotive lights that I would run across back in the day (though I never ran into an actual NOS one!).