signals in the media

legsbluetrain · Post by **legsbluetrain** » Mon Jul 15, 2013 2:19 pm

legsbluetrain wrote:Walker,Texas Ranger episode Cowboy has a UP train and a signal in it,the van Alex was in after she had been kidnapped went around the gates as soon as the train passed.I would like to know the location of the crossings in that scene.I know it had to have been the DFW area.

Alex mentioned she and the other victims were in Garland,TX.

YouTube · Sat Aug 31, 2013 9:22 pm

I love how they used Griswold Type As on the signal at the end.

CrossingLockdown · Post by **CrossingLockdown** » Sat Sep 28, 2013 8:47 pm

Obviously...........

Website · Post by **Trainzmandude2012** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 10:49 am

One Year Later....
(And I know I'm technically bumping this)
Who's seen the latest Toys R Us commercials?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3i7jPvrRBU

cabman701 · Post by **cabman701** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 12:47 pm

Trainzmandude2012 wrote:One Year Later....
(And I know I'm technically bumping this)
Who's seen the latest Toys R Us commercials?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3i7jPvrRBU

LOL... just saw that for the first time this weekend. Hadn't had a chance to post it yet, but I was thinking about it.

cabman701 · Post by **cabman701** » Mon Nov 03, 2014 12:26 pm

I'm sure most of you guys will be too young to remember this movie... I was only a baby myself when it came out, but remember seeing it in my teens on HBO or something like that. The movie is called "Duel".

I saw a post about this movie on Halloween day... the truck in this movie was deemed as the #2 scariest vehicle in a movie (the car from Christine was #1). The post included the original movie trailer. There was a scene in the movie at a railroad crossing, and watching that scene again after so many years, I realize the crossing had a tear drop bell and Raco hydraulic gates! You can see this scene below.

LOL... please remember, this movie was made in 1971. They didn't have all the fancy computers and graphics back then.

The crossing still exists, although things are much different than they were back then: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.4449773 ... Lkuwuw!2e0

YouTube · Mon Nov 03, 2014 8:23 pm

I like how they went out and actually used a recording of the Teardrop bell.

WRRS-Chicago · Post by **WRRS-Chicago** » Sun May 17, 2015 8:20 am

Joe E. Brown in 1936's Earthworm Tractors features a wigwag.

https://youtu.be/oA9e_AR3VNc?t=39m41s

This is from 1957's The Deadly Mantis. Studio prop crossing signal with A-frame gate. Sorry about the quality, not my doing.

https://youtu.be/kgPgix0m52I?t=47m10s

YouTube · Thu May 28, 2015 12:03 am

So I was watching the Nostalgia Critic's compilation of 11 underrated Halloween specials (paraphrasing what he said there a bit), and on the part about Halloween 3, I noticed one of the clips he used featured a railroad crossing.

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The crossing appears to have old US&S or GRS 8 inch lights and a mechanical bell of some kind. The bell kinda looks like a Teardrop, but it's hard to tell.
Not sure if this has been mentioned before, BTW.

cabman701 · Post by **cabman701** » Thu May 28, 2015 1:09 pm

Ford has had a Memorial Day add running locally (South Florida) for about the last 10 days or so. An active crossing is featured for about 3 seconds in two different scenes. Have no clue where this is unfortunately...

The add is currently on their website at http://www.southfloridaford.com/ ...but I'm sure it will only be there another few days until the sale ends.

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