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.
Re: signals in the media
Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 9:22 pm
by freebrickproductions
I love how they used Griswold Type As on the signal at the end.
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.
Re: signals in the media
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 12:26 pm
by cabman701
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.
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.
Re: signals in the media
Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 1:09 pm
by cabman701
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.
