Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

Always interesting when something normally used to mount side lights holds the main lights on the mast instead. But I can't say I've seen the practice used with a cantilever signal before.
I'd almost call this a 1 1/2 cantilever.

Headscratcher...

I wish there were ways to move those annoying telephone poles out of the lights' way without having to resort to adding on side brackets, but alas, I'm sure that'll never happen.

Smjh1979 wrote:I wish there were ways to move those annoying telephone poles out of the lights' way without having to resort to adding on side brackets, but alas, I'm sure that'll never happen.

sure there is
contact city engineering department and wait on hold for a year and a half then hear them tell you that will coat too much money

Sounds about right.

TRAINMANKIGHT wrote:

Smjh1979 wrote:I wish there were ways to move those annoying telephone poles out of the lights' way without having to resort to adding on side brackets, but alas, I'm sure that'll never happen.

sure there is
contact city engineering department and wait on hold for a year and a half then hear them tell you that will coat too much money

How do you get through in only a year and a half?

gedunk wrote:

TRAINMANKIGHT wrote:

Smjh1979 wrote:I wish there were ways to move those annoying telephone poles out of the lights' way without having to resort to adding on side brackets, but alas, I'm sure that'll never happen.

sure there is
contact city engineering department and wait on hold for a year and a half then hear them tell you that will coat too much money

How do you get through in only a year and a half?

with some yelling and screaming also a threat of a lawsuit works too

At that point, why not just put two overhead lights on the cantilever? The extra signal on the opposite side of the approach takes care of having lights closer to ground level... and in a way, the side lights aimed off to the business driveway seem as though they could have been mounted on the cantilever signal instead of across the street.

Sounds like a lot of possibilities with this kind of setup.