This signal came from the Chicago Area and was used on the CTA. This originally was two signals. After seeing pictures of signals that had two heads and a marker I decided to combine the two and got this. The number plate is fake and the real one will soon be installed.
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This signal was on the old Kirkwood Cut-off which was built by the MoPac in 1920's. This signal protected the movements over the double BNSF diamonds in Kirkwood Mo. This was the East facing signal. It was a replacement for a older GRS type G signal head. In the 1990's the line was cut and most of the rail removed. The rail was removed from the signal for many years and people attemped to steal it. This is known becuase the signal was missing the bolts and would become turned in a different direction from time to time. I acquired the signal from a bet I made with the Signal Supervisor. The signal cabinet was later scrapped out to install the Grants Trails restrooms.
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This signal came from Woodriver Illinois and was located near WANN Tower which burned down. UPRR Signal Dept gave me this signal. When I got it, it had a broken lens. This lens was real hard to find! I luckly got a new lens from a collector in Illinois.
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I was told this signal came from the C&NW in Fairfax MI. The maintainer who traded me this signal said he dug it from a BNSF Hopper. He said the hopper had this one and another, the other one was under to much scrap to get out. It has the original yellow and black stop sign with the beaded reflectors. When he found it, it had a new red and white stop sign bolted on top of the original one. It works off 12VDC and when power is applied a motor lifts a weight that makes the stop sign face away from traffic.
This signal was commonly used as a Switch indicator for spring switches. I was told this came from Indiana.
This signal is made by General Railway Signal Company and is a type VA color position light (CPL). This signal came off the Staten Island Rapid Transit (SIRT) lines. The SIRT signals had backgrounds and the markers raised off the top of the dwarfs. The first installation of these signals on the SIRT was in 1927 when the B&O RR ordered 77 sets of them. This signal also sports the side marker which was not common. Some of these dwarfs where also mounted on top of signal masts.
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This signal came from the St. Louis Municipal bridge. The signal was installed around 1940 and was owned and operated by St. Louis. It was removed in the summer of 2006 by the TRRA Railroad. We had the contract to get all the scrapped signals. Originally this signal suffered from a broken base but luckly I found another and this is how it turned out!
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I bought this signal off ebay and the seller had No. 63 which is pictured below. This signal was controlled from Carrol Street Tower which was the South Approach to the Municipal Bridge. Originally the dwarf had purple as the lower aspect but was later changed to red. This signal has two 110AC transformers to step down the voltage for the 10Vac 14watt signal bulbs. This was installed around the 1930's and still has the City Of St. Louis property tag on it.
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This signal came off the old B&O line that is now the CSX Illinois Sub that goes from East St. Louis to Indy. This signal came from the Flora Illinois area and is known as a Color Position Light (CPL). This one is original and has the 25 foot mast and ladder with markers. It currently waits to be installed on my property.
I bought this signal from a collector in Ohio, Signal was used at Grand Central Terminal in New York. It is a 110 Volt DC signal with 110 volt lamps. The spectacle is a recasted, most all of the spectacles were removed and scrapped then later the signals removed. Not many original spectacles are known to exist, the blade on this spectacle is real but the lenses are lenses that were ground down to fit. I have an original spectacle with original lenses and blade but do not leave it on this signal for security reasons. This signal number was 598, though the lamp has 597 stamped in it we could not fnd the 598 lamp cover. The signals were originally painted grey and white as you see here. This unit is working and a 3 position signal.
I had a US&S Plate G-306 Type C Switch Indicator Post laying around from East St. Louis Illinois. When the chance to get a indicator came I took it. I bought the indicator and it was in good condtion. It is Plate G-287 in a 1920's catalog. It has a 90* degree right hand upper quadrant semaphore blade that moves. These were commonly used as Motor Car Indicators but this style was used on the Erie Railroad as Switch Indicators.
It is Plate G-287 in a 1920's catalog. It has a 90* degree right hand lower quadrant semaphore blade that moves. These were commonly used as Motor Car Indicators on the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Got this signal off a trade for a GRS SA Searchlight. These were made for the PRR and some were used on the N&W lines but featured colored lenses.
Bought these as a scrap deal, I was told these came from the Kansas City Terminal. Found a rule for the KCT and it shows 3 aspect heads but does not say if they were dwarfs or not. I have never seen a triple stack searchlight before. The bottom head only has red and lunar cronicals installed.
This signal came from a pallet I bought from the Kansas City Southern. This signal had a inspection slip with the last date being Jan 1967. The signal was from MP 227.9 and came from Willows Tower area in East St. Louis Illinois. It is a #6 plug board and is different than the SA that the arm does not have the Red in the center. Instead has R-Y-G and the SA searchlight has G-R-Y.
This signal was located at Valley Junction in Sauget Illinois. It was broken in a derailment and replaced in the early summer of 2009. I didn't have another base but knew the GRS L signals had interchangeable parts with the GRS G and GRS D signals. With that in mind I took a GRS D base and installed it on this signal.
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This signal was located at Valley Junction in Sauget Illinois. It was broken in a derailment and replaced in March of 2008. It suffers from a broken door and broken off feet. When in service its feet were broken and had to have a support to hold it up. No plans for this.
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These signals were a common GRS type but the blade on this signal is a custom blade for the Chicago & North Western Railroad. This signal came out of the Clinton Street Interlocking, off of one of the many signal bridges they had. This interlocking was installed in 1912 and closed in 2001 when the plant was remote controlled from Lake Street Tower.
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These were specially designed for Chicago and North Western Railroad in the 1920’s. C&NW was adding a third track to 14 miles of their line between Elmhurst and West Chicago. It was located on the eastbound signal bridge in West Chicago. It was the lowest head on the bridge; you can see the original 5 inch horn it sits on. This signal has a Lunar lens installed but prior to the 1960’s they had yellow lenses installed for a restricting aspect. The signal still has the old C&NW Signal tags inside that read Signal 29.4C. The C meant that it was the lowest signal head, the top signal being A and the middle being B.
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This signal was custom made for the Cleveland Union Terminal in the 1930's. It featured an 110VAC Searchlight mechanism and contained two lighting transformers and a lamp-out relay inside the housing. These were only used at the Cleveland Union Terminal and were removed in the 1970's. The aspects are as follows: Red - Stop, Red over Yellow - Proceed at slow speed prepared to stop short of another train which is occupying this track, Yellow - Proceed at slow speed prepared to stop, track unoccupied, and Green - Proceed, track unoccupied, next signal clear.
This signal came from the Chicago Transit Authority.
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This signal was made for the Wabash Railroad and used at sidings. They had US&S Style markers installed on the top that would display Lunar. This signal has the original cast ears to attach the marker to. Others had welded brackets to hold the markers. This signal came from Vance Illinois and was removed from service in July 2011. Kept as a spare this signal was exchanged for another signal with the NS railroad in the fall of 2011. The signal would have lunar over green for Diverging Clear, lunar over yellow for Diverging Approach, and red for stop.
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This signal was thought to be used on this CTA in Chicago Illinois, in the 1910's. The signal is powered by 40Psi of compressed air; the air is controlled by a 12Vdc valve. Originally these had oil lamps and later electric lamps were added. This signal is in great working condition.
This dwarf came off the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway somewhere off a line in Kentucky. The feet have been broken off the base and rewelded by the railroad. The top head has a shorter hood as the bottom should have a longer hood.
