Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

Brian556 wrote: Thu Dec 12, 2019 9:48 pm

Anyone can post a dump here

If you insist...

Y'all do realize what "dump" can also mean, right?

yes.

There’s one in Lester, OH, I’ll have to take a picture next time I’m by there

Sorry for bumping this topic. I managed to find a signal graveyard over by the KCS Mexico Sub in the small town of Odessa, MO.
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0004085 ... 312!8i6656
It appears that KCS threw out some older signals that dated back to the Gateway Western era. I assume the former signals at Mason St got thrown here when KCS replaced the signals with newer gated cantilever signals. It was the ONLY crossing in Odessa with a mechanical bell

Since I never actually got around to posting it earlier, here's the dumps I'm aware of in my area...

NS:
Huntsville, AL:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.7350253 ... 312!8i6656
This one has since been redone (the yard office across the crossing was moved over next to it) and is now entirely enclosed.

Scottsboro, AL:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6746494 ... 312!8i6656
Not much too it, but the signals that are now at Market Street (just east of the crossing) were stored here before being installed.

Attalla, AL:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0177826 ... e3!5m1!1e4
No street view, but NS does have a small signal dump over by the diamonds there.

CSX:
Decatur, AL:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.5931721 ... 312!8i6656
That signal dump is located within Oakworth Yard, but the manager in charge of it is pretty nice. He also likes old signals & equipment, so he has a bunch of older block signals on display with various safety slogans around the building.
The emergency knock-down replacement signal there is also used as a gate for getting in/out of the building (can be seen to the left of it) and has a WCH mechanical bell on it as well.

Ardmore, AL:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.9910364 ... 312!8i6656
Like Scottsboro, there ain't much too it, but there is a small one right behind that little yard office. Sadly, the equipment in it can't really be seen on street view.

Shortlines/other railroads:
Gadsden, AL:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0183835 ... 312!8i6656
The ATN keeps most of their old signal equipment right at their offices in Gadsden. However, some of it's also kept over here by the NS Siskin Yard:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/34%C2 ... 17!5m1!1e4

Red Bay, AL:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.4422833 ... e3!5m1!1e4
The Mississippi Central has a signal dump by their offices in Red Bay. Again, no street view here.

Lebanon, TN:
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.197082, ... 92!5m1!1e4
The NERR also has a dump right by their offices. The building seen (across the driveway from the shops, which you'll see if you pan to the left) has a massive pile of 3rd Generation Modern Industries 12 inch lights behind it.

Anyways, that's all of the signal yards I can recall off the top of my head.

Bellingham, WA
https://goo.gl/maps/LCGF5BNfNVMLq5ES7
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Custer, WA
https://goo.gl/maps/QDXA3dFiwsPymG8J7
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Blaine, WA- When they redid the Loomis Trail Road crossing/ Swift, all the former signals were stored here until they could be removed/scrapped. The concrete block is all that still remains.
https://goo.gl/maps/mrqgzYhcProgzSsCA
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Mount Vernon, WA- they store retired/unused equipment in this building.
https://goo.gl/maps/wWSqaA4419xppEtH9

Wigwag graveyard at the Chicago & Northwestern yard in Milwaukee, WI in 1995 (just a month before C&NW was merged into Union Pacific):

Gathering of the Wigwags by Jeff Hampton, on Flickr

Looks like an RRS bell on one of them!

Here's some I've found.

Ault, CO
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.5847896 ... 8192?hl=en

Massive one in Denver, CO
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.7891062 ... 8192?hl=en

Not sure if this counts, but here is a place where new signals are being stored in Longmont, CO.
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1602194 ... 8192?hl=en

Northglenn, CO
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9236372 ... 384!8i8192