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RSI has gone under
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2017 11:12 pm
by freebrickproductions
Well, we have another company that we can add to the list of defunct manufacturers: Railroad Signal International. I heard over Facebook earlier today that RSI was shut down recently, and their website (
http://railroadsignalintl.com/) is also down now. Some maintainers are probably glad they're gone as their equipment was apparently rather cheaply built, and the employees didn't exactly like working there as well,
based on these reviews (note how the good "reviews" are downvoted into oblivion?).
In fact,
other than the one known installation of one of their bells, I can't think of any RSI equipment that's gone up in the last few years, which probably helped with their demise. Prior to that, several shortlines and light-rail systems were using their equipment at crossings.
Re: RSI has gone under
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 12:46 pm
by ZachL
Oh wow!
It now makes me wonder how much turnover their equipment has had wherever it may have been installed.
Re: RSI has gone under
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 1:01 pm
by freebrickproductions
ZachL wrote:Oh wow!
It now makes me wonder how much turnover their equipment has had wherever it may have been installed.
It seems that most of the equipment they've had go up has been LEDs, and on the SCART system out in Sacramento, CA, a good number of the older RSI LEDs have been replaced with newer ones. Other than that, since it was mainly shortlines that used their equipment, I haven't seen much "turn-over", since shortlines tend to keep what isn't broken until it needs to be replaced.
Re: RSI has gone under
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 8:32 pm
by freebrickproductions
Just found out via Facebook that RSI was bought out by
WabTec, who used to be WABCO prior to a merger with MotivePower Industries, Inc., according to their site. It appears they stopped making crossing equipment some time ago, but since they've bought RSI, they'll probably start back up with that.
Re: RSI has gone under
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2017 5:50 pm
by ToledoRailfan
I'll be surprised if RSI is around in another year.
Well that guy predicted the future!
I also noticed that those gate light stop light things looked like they could break easily, although they were pretty cool though!
Re: RSI has gone under
Posted: Sun May 14, 2017 2:31 am
by NathanFromEngland
Well, i found one of their so called manufacturing plants and i also came across...
This!
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@36.08337 ... 56!6m1!1e1
Re: RSI has gone under
Posted: Sun May 14, 2017 11:40 am
by ToledoRailfan
Holy crap!
That is pretty cool!
Nice find!
That
bell looks a bit odd.
Re: RSI has gone under
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 6:47 am
by Swedish Crossings
That is how the RSI bell looked from what i have seen