What type of bell?

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Re: What type of bell?

Post by freebrickproductions » Sat Sep 12, 2020 3:52 pm

MR Newton wrote:
Fri Sep 11, 2020 9:50 pm
E Main St, Orange, VA: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.245415, ... 312!8i6656
Probably a WRRS bell, would need to see the back.

Love those classic TPC signals though, especially with how most of the original 8 inch lights are still there!
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Re: What type of bell?

Post by MR Newton » Sat Sep 12, 2020 4:00 pm

I plan on shooting it the next time I'm in Orange. Here's a clip of it, not my video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jG4iFPlPPE
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Re: What type of bell?

Post by freebrickproductions » Sun Sep 13, 2020 12:50 am

MR Newton wrote:
Sat Sep 12, 2020 4:00 pm
I plan on shooting it the next time I'm in Orange. Here's a clip of it, not my video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jG4iFPlPPE
Nice! Would love to get that on the site.
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Re: What type of bell?

Post by Trainzmandude2012 » Thu Oct 22, 2020 12:24 am

Here let's have a fun challenge of figuring out what this was (An NEG E Bell replaced it)
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.3230634 ... 312!8i6656
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Re: What type of bell?

Post by Nascar Fan007 » Thu Oct 22, 2020 12:36 am

Trainzmandude2012 wrote:
Thu Oct 22, 2020 12:24 am
Here let's have a fun challenge of figuring out what this was (An NEG E Bell replaced it)
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.3230634 ... 312!8i6656
Looks like an us&s electronic bell to me.
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Re: What type of bell?

Post by UPking » Thu Oct 22, 2020 12:06 pm

Never seen one like that. GS base, US&S? Body, and a ??????? Cap.

Possibly a prototype US&S e bell???? Or just some bell with swapped out parts. We will never know.
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Re: What type of bell?

Post by flat train » Thu Oct 22, 2020 12:27 pm

Kinda looks like an ASC-GS-US&S hybrid. My best guess is that it was originally a GS type 1, and then the top parts broke off somehow, then they put a reused us&s bell with a makeshift cap.
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Re: What type of bell?

Post by Coast OC Railfan » Tue Oct 27, 2020 12:34 am

It almost looks like a prototype GS Type 1 by looking at the color of it.
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