Strange 60's gate mechanism
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Strange 60's gate mechanism
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Re: Strange 60's gate mechanism
A GRS product, IIRC. Want to say it was their answer to the WABCO AL-70.
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Re: Strange 60's gate mechanism
Okay, after confirming with Paul, it turns out those are actually WABCO AL-70s, not a GRS product like I had thought. If I had to guess, these were the earlier style of AL-70, before the (relatively much more common) "triangle-gate" came along, and are certainly very rare to find today.freebrickproductions wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:39 pmA GRS product, IIRC. Want to say it was their answer to the WABCO AL-70.
GRS did make their own product to compete with the AL-70, that also featured just one counterweight arm, but it's also extremely rare, with only 3 or 5 known to be left in service in CA (according to Paul, anyways). I want to say there were a few posted on the forum years ago, so I'll see if I can try to dig one up.
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