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[derechodragon]

Yesterday was spent over at a friend's house, doing work on restoring a few old railroad signals.

The dirtiest, most time-consuming work in any restoration project is typically disassembling and cleaning the parts to whatever it is you're restoring.  Nowhere is this more true than in railroad equipment restoration.  Items are left exposed to the

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[wingywoof]

Cool! :)

[kakoukorakos]

That gear mechanism is really neat. Oddly, out of the 3 control bungalows I acquired, I only got the rear cover from a single signal, and a broken signal hood. Would've been really nice to have snagged a more complete assembly, but the only actual signal cabinets they were pulling out were about the size of those traffic signal control boxes and were cast iron, with little lamp heads on masts. I don't think they were anything fancy like semaphores or color-changers, just glorified traffic signals. It's amazing just how overbuilt everything is though. I wish I had a friend who worked on the tracks locally who could send the cool junk my way...

[sturmovikdragon]

Wow, I can't believe a museum would sell such a rare artifact. Of course its not like one couldn't be manufactured from standard PL components and some sheet metal.

Now all you need is an LIRR style mini-domino signal.

[derechodragon]

Apparently IRM received several of those signals, and were selling off some spares as fundraisers. I believe the price they wanted was $700, quite reasonable for what it is, I think.

Surprisingly, there is not much on the PRR domino that is standard PL hardware. The brackets are of different lengths, the light assemblies and visors are considerably smaller, even the light and reflector stepup inside the assemblies is different. About the only thing we've found that they share in common are the brackets that hold the lights to the arms, and the centerpiece may or may not be identical, we don't have a PL center handy to compare it with. So it truly is a rare piece by anyone's definition.

[zeightyfiv]

nifty. ^^

I umm... I took apart a downed traffic light once. c.c
I still have the LED elements. But I didn't drag home the rest because it was to heavy for my bicycle. c.c
(still want to know what goes in those traffic control boxes...)