Glimpse of a B&O crossing signal from 1962
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2024 5:24 pm
This is kinda neat although of course I wish he'd kept the film rolling even just a few seconds longer...
One of my cousins has recently been digitizing the 8mm home movies taken by our grandfather from the 1950s into the '70s. Grandpa Bob wasn't a railfan but he did like to document random things he saw on his travels, in addition to the family footage of my mom & uncle as kids. So we ran across this little snippet hiding on one of the reels; a Baltimore & Ohio train with an A-B-A set of F-units dated April 25, 1962, somewhere in eastern Illinois or western Indiana while Grandpa was on a business trip from Milwaukee to Indianapolis.
The second shot (unfortunately only about 1.5 seconds) shows an 8" crossing signal with a black "STOP ON RED SIGNAL" sign.
One of my cousins has recently been digitizing the 8mm home movies taken by our grandfather from the 1950s into the '70s. Grandpa Bob wasn't a railfan but he did like to document random things he saw on his travels, in addition to the family footage of my mom & uncle as kids. So we ran across this little snippet hiding on one of the reels; a Baltimore & Ohio train with an A-B-A set of F-units dated April 25, 1962, somewhere in eastern Illinois or western Indiana while Grandpa was on a business trip from Milwaukee to Indianapolis.
The second shot (unfortunately only about 1.5 seconds) shows an 8" crossing signal with a black "STOP ON RED SIGNAL" sign.