What is the little red circle, light, or disc on the front of all diesel locomotives?
Not seeing what you are asking about. Some MU cable boxes have red round covers. Could that be it?
Could you post a picture?
-Kevin
Beats me, as there’s nothing like that on this one…
…or this one…
…or any of these…
Wayne, isolating the pic of what I think the OP was asking. And it appears that Kevin’s response was probably right.
Nice pics of NS 5028 too.
I think that you’re right, Douglas, although I was looking for something a little more noticeable. Hopefully we’ll get confirmation from chorister.
Thanks. I hadn’t realised that I had posted two pictures of the same locomotive until you mentioned it - they were taken on the same day, but apparently with several other pictures taken between the shot with 5028 approaching and the going-away version, as the pictures in photobucket were not consecutive.
Wayne
I noticed on a few of the photos there was red light on top of the hood. Maybe that’s it??
Maybe a local railroad in the OP’s area has some sort of red light on their diesels.
If I am right about something in the Prototype Information thread, this would be an event for the ages!
-Kevin
Well, what do you know!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQkisoOyIyc
Sometimes the red thing might be both a light and MU covers – here is a good ‘test case’ for the OP to reference:
On freight engines, it’s for the 27-pin MU jumper.
Passenger engines have the MU connector, too – but also you’ll see 4 additional jumper outlets (2 on either side, just above the plow) for the 480 volt ac head-end power jumpers.
They aren’t always red…