Old WRRS Model 10 Gate/Signals
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 5:39 am
If any of you follow the Railroad Signals group on Facebook you've seen this post I made a few weeks ago. Basically, after having to make a detour I was pleasantly surprised to come upon an old Model 10 gate with what Western Railroad Supply Co. called offset masts. Everyone here is obviously familiar with the standard gate and signal assembly, including a 5" mast. This design was basically a comparatively short 5" mast for the gate mech, with two horizontal brackets that supported a short 4" mast for the main flashing lights and signage. These have seen better days -- many decades ago. As a bonus, the crossing had a US&S 15-A bell AND as luck would have it, I was able to catch a short train passing through on this siding in Gary, IN. For the even keener-eyed, there's a shot of a bracket originally designed for the cast iron two-sided crossbucks (each sign section would be fastened to one of these brackets, which in turn were bolted together from opposites sides of the mast). There's a couple shots of the other signal, which is sort of the same but uses a different side bracket and the lights and gate mech were updated.