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Re: Railroad crossing signals with traffic signal lights.
Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 1:06 pm
by ZachL
ToledoRailfan wrote:If I had to take I guess I would say that they might have been used on the street running line in downtown Tampa a long time ago.
Nope, not at all. The traffic signal poles in downtown Tampa date back to the 1970s, and I'm sure the Harmon signals there either date back to the those as well, or at least the 80s. Plus, those bases were never common-use in Florida until the mid-2000s, and tunnel visors were not common until the 90s/2000s.
Re: Railroad crossing signals with traffic signal lights.
Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 1:25 pm
by ToledoRailfan
ZachL wrote:ToledoRailfan wrote:If I had to take I guess I would say that they might have been used on the street running line in downtown Tampa a long time ago.
Nope, not at all. The traffic signal poles in downtown Tampa date back to the 1970s, and I'm sure the Harmon signals there either date back to the those as well, or at least the 80s. Plus, those bases were never common-use in Florida until the mid-2000s, and tunnel visors were not common until the 90s/2000s.
Then probably what happened was that Busch Gardens wanted to have full scale signals and getting miscellaneous traffic signal and railroad crossing parts and assembling them was close enough.
Re: Railroad crossing signals with traffic signal lights.
Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 1:26 pm
by ZachL
ToledoRailfan wrote:ZachL wrote:ToledoRailfan wrote:If I had to take I guess I would say that they might have been used on the street running line in downtown Tampa a long time ago.
Nope, not at all. The traffic signal poles in downtown Tampa date back to the 1970s, and I'm sure the Harmon signals there either date back to the those as well, or at least the 80s. Plus, those bases were never common-use in Florida until the mid-2000s, and tunnel visors were not common until the 90s/2000s.
Then probably what happened was that Busch Gardens wanted to have full scale signals and getting miscellaneous traffic signal and railroad crossing parts and assembling them was close enough.
Exactamente.
Re: Railroad crossing signals with traffic signal lights.
Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2017 11:30 pm
by freebrickproductions
ZachL wrote:ToledoRailfan wrote:If I had to take I guess I would say that they might have been used on the street running line in downtown Tampa a long time ago.
Nope, not at all. The traffic signal poles in downtown Tampa date back to the 1970s, and I'm sure the Harmon signals there either date back to the those as well, or at least the 80s. Plus, those bases were never common-use in Florida until the mid-2000s, and tunnel visors were not common until the 90s/2000s.
I'm betting the Harmon lights are from the 90s or early 2000s.
Re: Railroad crossing signals with traffic signal lights.
Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 9:53 pm
by ZachL
freebrickproductions wrote:ZachL wrote:ToledoRailfan wrote:If I had to take I guess I would say that they might have been used on the street running line in downtown Tampa a long time ago.
Nope, not at all. The traffic signal poles in downtown Tampa date back to the 1970s, and I'm sure the Harmon signals there either date back to the those as well, or at least the 80s. Plus, those bases were never common-use in Florida until the mid-2000s, and tunnel visors were not common until the 90s/2000s.
I'm betting the Harmon lights are from the 90s or early 2000s.
It also makes me wonder if the LEDs in them are original too, or if they were incandescent at one point.
Re: Railroad crossing signals with traffic signal lights.
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 8:49 pm
by ToledoRailfan
Re: Railroad crossing signals with traffic signal lights.
Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 9:33 pm
by freebrickproductions
Those are some dwarf signals being used as pedestrian signals. It's something that the Reading liked to do back in the day.
Re: Railroad crossing signals with traffic signal lights.
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 6:56 am
by McK&H.Aust
Re: Railroad crossing signals with traffic signal lights.
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2017 2:20 am
by LARDLOGO
*BUMP* Looks like those generic stock crossing signals on older Trainz games
Re: Railroad crossing signals with traffic signal lights.
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 8:06 pm
by ToledoRailfan
Especially sense there have been crossings on this line or a connecting line in the area that have crossings that we've posted here on the forum in the past! 