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Re: Another abandoned cantilever
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 5:09 pm
by Robert_Gift
SirKrunch wrote:Robert_Gift wrote:Lying on the ground are the lamps (o)=(o) of the missing signal:
Um, yeah... I believe I said that already?
Sorry.
Discovered them while looking from the original post. Wondered why only one cantilever.
Do they ever have one cantilever and one regular signal?
Re: Another abandoned cantilever
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 5:14 pm
by SirKrunch
Robert_Gift wrote:
Do they ever have one cantilever and one regular signal?
Many times.
There's one crossing like that only 2 miles from my place.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=42.1 ... 46,,0,2.17
I will say though, I'm not sure sometimes about the signal maintainer on this line.
On this signal
here, during the summer a few years ago the crossbuck was stolen off of it and wasn't replaced for nearly three months. On the nearby crossing,
this signal was vandalized one night... someone placed some bumper stickers on the crossbuck and twisted the lamps out of alignment. It took a week before it was fixed. Also, this was the signal that was taken out during a snowstorm last winter and has the pinacle or top sealed with duct tape.
Re: Another abandoned cantilever
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:05 pm
by cabman701
Robert_Gift wrote:Do they ever have one cantilever and one regular signal?
First of all, the missing signal that you discussed in your post could have been a cantilever too. Pretty likely that those lights laying on the ground came from whatever was there... but that is not a guarantee.
Anyway, to answer your question above, one cantilever and one regular signal does happen quite a bit. I think it has to do with visibility mostly. Here's an example from my home town:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... .69,,0,5.2
That cantilever is also the type that has the bump out in the front to mount the gate moter and mast signal. Here's a better view of that:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 9,,0,-0.73