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 Post subject: Signal ID?
PostPosted: Wed Aug 21, 2024 1:19 am 

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Picked up this signal and previous owner bought it at a Carlisle PA auto swap meet and he "thinks" maybe it's B&O but I can't find anything that looks like it in online searches.

Roughly 24-30" square, looks like bottom and upper left are fixed red with a red lens inside and clear on top. Would have to look over the upper right again. Case is aluminum. It is missing an outer lens, I need to check the box of lenses that came with to see if one of those fits.

I can't find anything on that Chock flag either, but we know where that came from. (all I get are pictures of newer devices)


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 Post subject: Re: Signal ID?
PostPosted: Wed Aug 21, 2024 4:30 pm 

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Accidentally found the right search to find out it's a US&S tri-light similar to some used on the Pennsy outside of the corridor. Possible others used them too. Probably no way to track down what road it came from.


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 Post subject: Re: Signal ID?
PostPosted: Wed Aug 21, 2024 7:22 pm 

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Location: Somewhere east of Prescott, AZ along the old Santa Fe "Prescott & Eastern"
I have been all over the former PRR and much of the former B&O, and nowhere do I recall seeing that "tri-light" design of signal in use. Both roads were loyalists to different forms of the position-light signals, and even if I throw "dwarf signals" and the like into the mix that's a signal type I've never seen in former PRR or B&O territory, except MAYBE for extremely specialized applications like on a tight-clearance bridge or at an interchange.

Your better bet might be ex-NYC, which had extensive penetration into the Pa. Clearfield coal region and into West Virginia?


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 Post subject: Re: Signal ID?
PostPosted: Wed Aug 21, 2024 9:10 pm 

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Conrail installed these in the 1980s.

Actual pictures of them here:

https://railroadsignals.us/signals/trilights/index.htm


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 Post subject: Re: Signal ID?
PostPosted: Thu Aug 22, 2024 2:31 pm 

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lvrr325 wrote:
Conrail installed these in the 1980s.

Actual pictures of them here:

https://railroadsignals.us/signals/trilights/index.htm


Bingo!

I believe their use on former PRR territory started under PC, but they are all post-Pennsy iinstallations. PRR was ride or die on PLs until it died.

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 Post subject: Re: Signal ID?
PostPosted: Fri Aug 23, 2024 6:42 pm 

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NYC was big on tri-light signals in their day. PC and CR changed all that.


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