Western Railroad Discussion > Rust- Never Sleeps/ Always Hungry

The signal at the East end of Seacliff, CA is slowly "Going back to God".
It will surely be missed at some point.
SR

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Now there is a signal head that truly needs replacing.

Corrosion from salt air is merciless.

Plastic head would work wonders.

For all the times I've seen railroads junk perfectly good modern signal heads just to put up a new version of the same model, here's one that definitely needs a new shield at least.   Amazing the damage that constant salt breeze will do.

A little Bondo and some paint...good as new :D

OK, Neil Young!

RuleG Wrote:
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> OK, Neil Young!

Hey-  He was right...
SR

BoilingMan Wrote:
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> RuleG Wrote:
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> > OK, Neil Young!
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> Hey-  He was right...
> SR

Yup, esp the next verse... "It's better to burn out, than fade away"...
But...  I don't know about his next verse after that, "hey, hey, my my, rock and roll will never die" ...  We sure are losing a lot of our rockers and there don't seem to be many replacements on the horizon, sadly.
Nice work, as always, SR



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/19/21 15:07 by IC_2024.

What does the "C" plate indicate? (other than corrosion)

Has it REALLY been 40 years since we lost John???

... imagine ... :^(

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cewherry Wrote:
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> What does the "C" plate indicate? (other than
> corrosion)

The C is for commuter.  It only affects a couple of signal aspects/indications, but allows passenger trains to operate at a higher speed then freight trains in regards to passing the next signal.
Union Pacific Railroad Signal Rules (jovet.net)

RuleG Wrote:

> OK, Neil Young!

An essential hogger
I move freight at night
You see me notch out now
Chasing the searchlight
My Cinnamon Girl

That's bad but I've seen a couple where the polls were rusted out and the signal maintainers wouldn't climb them.  They either used a bucket or a ladder to get up to the signal head.  

John

The trestle a La Selva Beach on the Santa Cruz branch was in this same condition, all while six axle units & loaded coal & cement trains were still using it. It has since been completely rebuilt, and ironically, is now no longer used.

Desmond Praetzel, "4451 Puff"

"Luke...help me take...this mask off..."

I feel really old in that I remember when that was a searchlight signal.

Todd Clark
Canyon Country, CA
Trainorders.com

webmaster Wrote:
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> I feel really old in that I remember when that was
> a searchlight signal.

Oh, come on, it wasn't THAT long ago...   
was it?
I still think of these signals as "new".
SR

I want to say it was late 1990s when this section of the Coast Line was upgraded to CTC and the search lights were replaced here.



BoilingMan Wrote:
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> webmaster Wrote:
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> > I feel really old in that I remember when that
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> > a searchlight signal.
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> Oh, come on, it wasn't THAT long ago...   
> was it?
> I still think of these signals as "new".
> SR

Todd Clark
Canyon Country, CA
Trainorders.com