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100-year-old dilapidated railroad crossing on display at Rittman OH

Posted: Sun May 03, 2020 7:26 pm

by pluey200

Track sign has a very faded 3

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Last one is a piece of a visor that rusted off and fell

Don't mind my legs...

Re: 100-year-old dilapidated railroad crossing on display at Rittman OH

Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2020 6:31 pm

by pluey200

Lights appear to be RRS model 808 or 818 incandescents

http://www.rrsignalpix.com/pdf/WRRS_1927_ocr_sec.pdf

page 33 & 38

Re: 100-year-old dilapidated railroad crossing on display at Rittman OH

Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2020 11:32 pm

by freebrickproductions

A bit hard to tell from your pics, though they look a bit more like Griswold Type Bs to me.

Re: 100-year-old dilapidated railroad crossing on display at Rittman OH

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2020 12:33 pm

by pluey200

Yeah, they're not good, I'll try to take more if go there sometime, however I remember there being bumps on the back of the lights like the RRS ones.

Re: 100-year-old dilapidated railroad crossing on display at Rittman OH

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2020 6:57 pm

by LARDLOGO

Kind of looks like a semaphore mast.