Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

Check this one out!

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=336039

This crossing is on GSV as well, although the blue signs shown in the picture do not show on GSV:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 86,,0,8.45

Obviously the signals themselves are odd... but check out the gate lights mounted on the bottom!

Those signals are very old, probably one of the very first signal types to have alternating flashing lights.

Oh yeah, I remember those...

Did anyone else notice that in the photo link of the OP post that not only were the ENS signs added, but one of the pinnacles was removed and a gate light added in its place? Wonder if any consideration was ever made to adding a bell... (if there isn't one hiding someplace I can't see, that is.)

Didn't understand the concept with the gate lights... but makes perfect sense now. I can see now on GSV it does look like those lights are on. I thought it was just my imagination at first!

How interesting!
Hope they are never moved oremoved.
Would be nice if someone local can find out how old they are.

As a young child riding in my parent's car from Pittsburgh to grandmother's house in Lewistown, somewhere in the middle of Pennsylvania on a two-lane road I saw "old fashioned" crossing signals.
The lamps, I recall, looked longer from front to back and the visors more pointed.
The background disks around the lamps did notouch the lamps - there was a gap between the lamp cylinder and disk.

Though I always remarked about them, my parents never thought to stop and take a photo or at least let me look at them a little.
But I probably would not have wanted to look at them because they were weird and I did not like them.
Now I would love to see them.

Recently I looked at routes on Googlearth andid not find a single track crossing a road they likely took.
So have no idea where it was.

Posted from Yantai, China, Monday, September 06 9:36 a.m. China time

KLM92 wrote:I found a pic showing one of the earliest design of WRRS light heads with the backgrounds between the front and rear facing light heads. The rear facing light heads are not visible because of the background but the flex conduit running to them can be seen.

Wonderful. Thank you, Kody.
Interesting that they even had the side ports allowing the train crew to see the blinking lightbulb inside.

On the "olde-fashioned" signal I saw as a child, I recall that each lamp had its own background disk.
But the disk opening was larger than the lamp cylinder so there was a gap between lamp and disk.
It seemed that the lamp cylinder was longer and a slightly smaller diameter with a longer visor.

Awesome find there, KLM.
Looking at it reminds me of my satellite dish...

I was there today and the crossing got upgraded . This was very resent because the last time I was here in Spring of 2013, the crossing had not been upgraded.

ToledoRailfan wrote:I was there today and the crossing got upgraded . This was very resent because the last time I was here in Spring of 2013, the crossing had not been upgraded.

Your image doesn't work.
Sad that the crossing was upgraded. May the old signals R.I.P (rust in pieces).