Rail Yard Lighting and Energy Conservation

Most of the things we import and export in ouryou ask?
nation use trains to get at least part of the wayBy placing hundreds of large sandwich sheets with
there. Giant coal cars leave Gillette, WY headeda taunt film on the vibrational side and small
for our nations power plants. Railcars filled withcopper lined tubes inside of them. Hundreds of
sugar beats leave Central Valley California, whiletubes in each sheet running perpendicular with
petroleum products leave Houston headed tomagnets inside them bouncing back and forth.
market. So much of our nations freight gets to usThese magnets will charge a capacitor and be
by train. Some of the Rail yards are huge,hooked up to an LED lighting system using fiber
thousands of acres and security and lighting isoptics or reflectors, each one hooked up to a .2
paramount.to .5 watt light. With hundreds of thousands of
The costs to light up an entire rail yard can run inlights hooked up in a composite, like the eye of an
the millions per year. In fact many rail yards areinsect, format they will light up the entire rail yard
not well lit, due to cost savings, making themand since the lights can shine down on the track in
potential targets for International Terrorists orthe direction of traffic it would be like daylight
potential areas for crime. We have all heard thewithout the light pollution associated with lights in
stories of dead bodies being dumped at rail yards.large cities.
We can deter crime in these areas by increasingCurrently this technology is being used in those
the lighting and security cameras and runninglittle flashlights you see advertised on television
them of the vibrational energy of the rail cars onthat you shake and they light, but you never
the tracks and the rumble of the locomotives.need batteries. This idea of lighting up the rail
And the energy is free, as it has already beenyards is using that technology on a larger scale
paid for in overcoming the friction that made itwith miniaturized parts making up the guts
thru the powerful locomotive engines. We mustbetween the sandwich sheets. Let there be light,
collect this energy and turn it into light. How sothru vibrational energy and there was. Think on it.