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lights and train
The inconvenience to passengers of interior lights being momentarily extinguished as the train passes over conductor rail gaps was partially eliminated in this stock by feeding half the car lights from the motor car at one end of the unit, and half from the other.
It was said that passengers on the evening train would rush to the windows when passing through Wesson in order to see the marvelous lights.
Webb's view from the left side of the train was better, and he was first to see the red lights of the caboose on the main line.
In the US the display of two green flags ( green lights at night ) is an indication that another train is following the first and the waiting train must wait for the next train to pass.
A caboose was fitted with red lights called markers to enable the rear of the train to be seen at night.
This has led to the phrase " bringing up the markers " to describe the last car on a train ( these lights were officially what made a train a " train ").
The machines also have blinking red lights to warn following trains that a train is ahead.
The front-facing lamps were an indication to the locomotive crew that the train was still complete, whilst the provision of extra red lights to the rear was an additional safety measure.
Due to the very low chance of all three lights being out at once, it was stipulated that a freight train passing without any lamps on the rear had split and that the rear portion was potentially running away.
He flies at low level back up the tracks and makes three low passes to warn the train, flashing his landing lights and dropping landing flares.
), colliding with a railway infrastructure ( bridges, tunnels, platforms, traffic lights or other trains ) while riding outside off structure gauge on the side or on the roof of a train, or unsuccessful attempts to jump on a moving train or off it.
Characters travel by horse-drawn carriage and steam train and employ revolving pistols and bolt action rifles ; buildings are illuminated with gas lights.
Firing blindly as the train lights flicker, Max mortally wounds Vincent in a shootout while emerging unscathed.
In 2006, Operation Lifesaver requested that Disney edit a scene of the Pixar film Cars in which the character of Lighting McQueen races a train to a grade crossing while the crossing lights are flashing.
Rhyolite in 1907 had concrete sidewalks, electric lights, water mains, telephone and telegraph lines, daily and weekly newspapers, a monthly magazine, police and fire departments, a hospital, school, train station and railway depot, at least three banks, a stock exchange, an opera house, a public swimming pool and two formal church buildings.
Further, the units could only ever display red lights at the ends, thus the front of the train displayed two red lights instead of the more usual white.
After the priest tells her he is Father Derning, the lights in the train begin to flash, and Frankie holds onto the bars lining the ceiling as she is whipped from behind by an unseen force, Father Derning watching in horror.

lights and flash
The colours and flash intervals of these lights became standardized under the International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ).
During weekdays, special code would find errors and flash lights so the operators could correct the problem.
Electricity was used only to flash lights and to indicate problems, such as a machine emptied of its balls.
The town's traffic lights, flash yellow in the off-season.
Of course, the real story was not as fantastic as the fictional radio drama – all that had occurred was that the Superior Portland cement company's electrical sub-station suffered a short-circuit with a flash of brilliant light, and all the town's lights went dark.
Correction gels are commonly used, so that the light of the flash would be the same as the tungsten lights ( using a CTO gel ) or the fluorescent lights.
A smaller version is used to trigger the flash tubes used in cameras and strobe lights.
Like the 19th century Glaswegian boxes, the London police boxes contained a light at the top of each box, which would flash as a signal to police officers indicating that they should contact the station ; the lights were, by this time, electrically powered.
Most strobe lights on sale to the public are factory-limited to about 10-12 flashes per second in their internal oscillators, although externally triggered strobe lights will often flash as frequently as possible.
The British Health and Safety Executive recommend that a net flash rate for a bank of strobe lights does not exceed 5 flashes per second, at which only 5 % of photosensitive epileptics are at risk.
These lights would flash the moment the bell rang.
) As a result, causality is weakened all over the globe, and the untrained humans, not knowing what to do with their newfound freedom, break down the fabric of reality as the stars suddenly reappear in the sky then turn into an almost blinding flash as the heavens fill with lights and possibilities undreamed of ...
In right center field, two smokestacks, reminiscent of the steamboats that were common on the Ohio River in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, flash lights, emit flames and launch fireworks to incite or respond to the home team's efforts.
Housed in an arcade cabinet, Touch Me featured a series of lights which would flash with an acompanying tone.
The most common use of this type is in the " flasher " units that flash turn signals in automobiles, and sometimes in Christmas lights.
Xenon flash lamps are gas-filled tubes used in cameras and strobe lights to produce bright flashes of light.
The exact spacing of a pattern in time or space is important and varies from one individual to another: a patient may readily experience seizures when exposed to lights that flash seven times per second, but may be unaffected by lights that flash twice per second or twenty times per second.
For rear collisions, active front headrests designed to help reduce whiplash are standard as well as brake lights that flash under emergency braking.
Should the start need to be aborted for any reason, all five red lights will come on as normal, but instead of going out, the three orange lights will flash.

lights and across
In ancient times, astronomers noted how certain lights moved across the sky in relation to the other stars.
** The family observed pots and pans being thrown around the kitchen, blinds moving up and down, lights going on and off, doors locking themselves, chairs flying across the room, and cupboard doors opening and banging shut before being ripped off their hinges among other phenomena.
For example, in some Muslim countries today lights are strung up in public squares, and across city streets, to add to the festivities of the month.
Also, the canopy and matching street lights in Public Square and across downtown were removed ; the replacements are new green lampposts.
These shots were composited onto a painting of the Earth along with overlaid lightning effects, created by double-exposing lights as they moved across the screen.
Finally, she lights her stringybark torch from the campfire, then travels across the sky to her evening camp in the west.
Occasional proposals to replace gas lights with electric lights run across the obstacle that there is no source of electric power along the streets.
During the winter, people from across all 50 states travel to Muskogee to see Honor Heights transformed into the Garden of Lights, a Christmas lights display.
The lights of Yachats as seen from across the estuary
Traditional Bayram ( Turkey ) | Bayram wishes from the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, stating " Let us love, Let us be loved ", in the form of mahya lights stretched across the minaret s of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque ( Istanbul ) | Blue Mosque in Istanbul
A Pelican crossing is a type of pedestrian crossing featuring a pair of poles each with a standard set of traffic lights facing oncoming traffic, a push button and two illuminated, coloured men facing the pedestrian from across the road-a red, stationary man to indicate that it is not safe to cross, and a green, walking man to indicate that it is safe to do so.
Diwali being festival of lights, across India people celebrate it via symbolic diyas or kandil s ( colourful paper lanterns ) as an integral part of Diwali decorations.
Clubgoers and enthusiasts from across the country attended to snap up memorabilia ranging from the DJ booth box and radiators to emergency exit lights.
For a now-legendary live performance of their live epic " Stranger Than Fiction ", a woman friend was recruited to crawl across the stage during the song, under pulsing strobe lights, with a bloodied axe apparently embedded in her skull.
A second reason for the design is that having the lights closer to the user assists visually impaired people who could have difficulty viewing the signal from across the carriageway.
All models above the Fairlane, had an aluminium dividing bar that ran across the rear panel, between the taillights and inline with the reverse lights on SportsRoof models.
Between 2006 and 2007 junction 10 near Ashford was remodelled to increase capacity when the bridges across the motorway was modified to provide three lanes of traffic at the roundabout, and local approach roads were widened, with new traffic lights to control traffic flows at the junction between the A292 Hythe Road and the London-bound M20 entry slip road.
The next lights are notable for the IKEA store on the northwest and the Neasden temple on the southeast ( not visible ) and the road twists fairly sharply left to cross the railway left again and right, originally in order to avoid housing and to run across more empty land past the Welsh Harp Reservoir.
The tail lights were still round but instead of the small round indicator of the XR, the XT model had a long indicator across the light.
It is across and is fitted with subterranean lights representing the 42 brightest stars and major constellations that can be seen from Scarborough in the northern skies.
* The character of Dr. John Watson, associate of fictional detective Sherlock Homes, comes across a group of doggers while independently investigating distant mysterious lights he sees during the 2012 BBC production of " The Hounds of Baskerville ", the second episode of season two in the televised drama " Sherlock ".
One Providence fire truck was stranded across an intersection in Fox Point, its red lights spinning and firemen asleep in the cab.
At some airports, a line of red lights across a taxiway is used during low visibility operations to indicate holding positions.

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