Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

Looks like I'll be the first to break in this new section after the unfortunate loss of the old board. So here is a small tease of what's coming.

This one kinda makes you go



Something slightly more traditional...

I can see maybe why the city chose the different cantilevers. Yes they look weird, but I think they chose it because it blends in more with the stop lights and such. I don't know if that's a good thing or not.

I don't know if I like that or not....I guess it'll have to grow on me...but why such tall mast signals??

<Hides head in hands> In the style of Jeremy Clarkson: "What have they done?!". Nice pictures by the way.

there is this crossing that has lights on top of each other, but not under/over the crossbuck:
http://www.rxrsignals.net/Illinois/A-K/Alton/100/

I found a video on youtube (not my video) that looks like it has the same crossing in it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1xuNuRL ... re=channel


Theres also another crossing with this signal configuration on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RpjAmbZ ... annel_page

That PED crossing looks a bit overkill with all them 12X20 Harmon LED's... 2 WCH E bells, and 4 Crossbucks... That other crossing is quite clever since you basically have a cantilever setup for both the traffic and the crossing. Though I think the lights are too close together.

Did they try to fix something that wasn't broken? Again? Weird set up.

I think the reason for the tall masts is I think those were once Cantilevers. You can see 2 horizontal rings undereath the WCH E bells that would represent perhaps OLD Cantilever bars, maybe like the WCH Setup. I can't determine another explanation for the reason those masts are so tall other than they were once cantilevers.

My guess... and it's just a guess... is that the gates are rather close to the "cantilever" signals, and the gates are rather long. Maybe they wanted the wind guard up higher like that to keep the gates from blowing into the other signal??