Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

flat train wrote: Sun Mar 29, 2020 5:52 pm

freebrickproductions wrote: Sun Mar 29, 2020 2:55 am

flat train wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2020 5:03 pm Oh alright. How rare would you say a gs type 1 is?

I'd say somewhat uncommon? They aren't exactly the easiest e-bells to find, especially since they were an earlier e-bell with a somewhat bad design that hasn't been made in probably over 20 years now. However, the GS Type 1 was essentially the first e-bell to become "popular" with railroads (I'm guessing due to it having a rather cheap price compared to other e-bells at the time), so there's probably easily hundreds of examples of these still in service in just about every state in the US, if I had to take a guess.

Okay, is there any way I could tell if it is a gs type 1 without it ringing, say looking at it from the ground, and also, do they still make gs type 2s?

flat train wrote: Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:02 am Alright. Back to the teardrops, I think the one with the patent is a gen 2 because they are harder to find. https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1380107 ... 312!8i6656

Also, do you know of any gen 1 teardrops in cali?

freebrickproductions wrote: Mon Mar 30, 2020 2:38 am

flat train wrote: Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:02 am Alright. Back to the teardrops, I think the one with the patent is a gen 2 because they are harder to find. https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1380107 ... 312!8i6656

Also, do you know of any gen 1 teardrops in cali?

Patents are Gen 3. I know that because I was told that the one that was in Odenville, AL was a Gen 3, and it featured the patent cast onto it:
http://www.rxrsignals.com/Alabama/G-Q/O ... e/Alabama/

And no, I do not.

pluey200 wrote: Sun Apr 05, 2020 9:45 pm https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0289713 ... 312!8i6656

Don't see any markings on the bell

UPking wrote: Fri May 01, 2020 11:59 am That bell just got replaced with an NEG bell. There should be a post about it in the Crossing Signal News category.