Quote Originally Posted by rastuscat View Post
I've submitted too.

For the right to have DRLs and headlights on at the same time.

I noticed today that trains have three lights to the front at least, when they used to make do with one. Now they have a headlight, and two lower running lights.

That's the layout I want to use. Headlight, and two DRLs down on my forks.

Still, submission made, so here's hoping.

Donuts.
You are correct Rastus,

the 'ditch lights' as they are called, are there to illuminate the nearby outer track and the edges of the rail corridor. (The old Metropolitan EE's had a dispensation to run without, till they were retired 'recently').
NZ is adopting the FRA standards for lighting and audible warning devices, worth a read,,,, minimum horn volume is high 90's DB, and for any local's in Wellington, the new Matangi trains headlight falls short of the new FRA standard, they are being replaced with LED type about X5 brighter on high beam. I believe the 'ditch lights' are also going to be brighter, and be replaced with LED's..