20585 Gyralite Photos - Gyrating Warning Lights

20585 GYRALITE - (1)

Front view with door open

Case with mechanism and door removed

Older unit showing sand infiltration
Improved design has eliminated this problem.

Photo source: Mar. 1998 issue of "Railfan & Railroad"
photo by Barton Jennings (permission: 3/1/98)
Nose mounted 20585 Gyralite in a KCS SD60
Notice the use of the Ditch Lights together with the 20585 Gyralite.

Photo source: June 1997 issue of "Trains"
photo by Steve Glischinski (permission: 9/8/1998)
Again, notice use of Ditch Lights together with nose mounted 20585 Gyralite.

Photos by Phil Slates - Indiana Transportation Museum
No. 83-A Monon F7 with 20585 Gyralite in upper headlight opening
[This is an ex-Milwaukee Road F7 painted in the Monon livery.]

Photo by David L. Miller (George Elwood Collection)
No. 1 Burlington Northern F9A with 20595 Gyralite in upper headlight opening (1997)
The 20585 has diagonal hinges on the bulb rings. The 20595 has the hinge on the Red light horizontal. This light looks like it had an updated 20585 mechanism installed in it with the new can motor.

crop of above photo

Photos by Bill Kaufman

Horizontally mounted 20585 Gyralite
The light came from a SP U33C. The mechanism came from a D&H light.
The light was originally mounted vertically as is evidenced by the
rust marks to the right of each lens ...telltale signs of former visors.

Back and Side view of mechanism

Case with mechanism and door removed

Front view of mechanism

Side view of mechanism (bulb rings open)

Side view of 20585 unit

Front view of Trans-Lite dual headlight fixture with bulbs and GE type visors

Front view of Trans-Lite dual headlight fixture illustrating bulb ring

Gyralite control from GP30 (shown below) -- lower "OFF" on rotary switch could be "RED"

Stand showing Gyalite control in GP30 (shown below)

GP30 with 20585 in nose

Roof mounted 20585 Gyralite in a SCL/L&N (now CSX) SD40-2
photo by: Ken Kraemer

D&H No. 17, a PA rebuilt, with a 20585 Gyralite installed in the nose, on a plate, taking the place of an earlier circular unit
photo by: Ken Kraemer

SP No. 4451 SD9E
The Red lens at the top. It was conventional to have the Red lens at the bottom in a vertically mounted 20585 Gyralite.

Horizontally mounted 20585 with BOTH lenses Clear

Left - Cotton Belt No. 7771, a B36-7 rebuilt after a 1982 wreck
Right - Oregon, California & Eastern No. 7603, a U25B UP rebuilt (nose mounted 20585 Gyralite)

D&H No. 757 with nose mounted 20585 Gyralite in a U33C
Red lens is toward left side of locomotive.

D&H No. 760 with nose mounted 20585 Gyralite in a U33C
The Gyralite was installed on rebuilding after a wreck.
Red lens is toward left side of locomotive.
photo by: Ken Kraemer