signal

Tue Sep 6 18:32:08 EDT 2022

1992 in Williamson Larry Reed

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On Tuesday, September 6, 2022, 3:06 PM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

 Jim,

 This is one of those, "Even a blind hog. . .":

 This was taken in Fort Wayne on the ex-WAB, looking west towards downtown. The photographer is standing on the Edsall Avenue overpass (google 41.071507, -85.099469), overlooking the Lumbard Street grade crossing. The track ahead is littered with grade crossings, so that is a holdout signal to protect the grade crossings from trains blocking them while stopping for the distant signal. In effect a repeater, it would repeat the stop indication of the distant signal and hold the approaching movement clear of the crossings.

 The distant signal protects the crossing with the ex-PRR main line to Chicago and that would explain the lineage of the holdout signal. By this time, the distant signal has been changed out to an N&W four-arm CPL bracket signal. The holdout signal has suffered an update to a shadow of its former self, but it's still there.

 Grant Carpenter

 On 9/4/2022 11:36 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:

On Ebay for a few more hours is the following: 
  https://www.ebay.com/itm/354252756708?hash=item527b1c16e4:g:VA4AAOSw8uFjDAEs&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoFd90qcLS4gxq1Bjmhvdt1%2FPLjwE9IgEJnbSl4HRPUIrYGMjdpQoyA9GgxSQnfQpU3YuLSO5Wk8WxdSUFMhljpb8kn1IYVcl%2F3f0UeCDbjTYdQOBDWXT5WfV4jkHFzguw0nqqFY0%2B4HRnTJqMHGcl0fLW8epEcWB2Qp1DNuSUD5SUT9OVB%2BjrmaMkla991fePTXrMbaJXZVYODEj4%2FRTwp0%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR4TOoJXhYA

  It appears to show a single-armed CPL with only the three horizontal positions occupied.  I don't believe I've seen this configuration before.  It would seem the signal could only indicate stop and proceed, but there would be no need for the center position. 
  Any thoughts/speculations as to the purpose of the signals or the location would be greatly appreciated. Jim Cochran  
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