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Started by Alex, June 21, 2009, 09:53:36 PM

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PAHighways

#225
April 02, 2010, 01:12:48 AM  

Mr_Northside

#226
April 02, 2010, 10:32:22 AM  
Quote from: PAHighways on April 02, 2010, 01:12:48 AM
Decommissioned signal on SR 3093/Old US 119 in New Stanton, PA

I'd never seen that light do anything but blink yellow (yellow for old 119 obviously)
(The same with the McCrady Rd / Rt. 130-Beulah Rd light next to where Rt-130 goes under the Parkway East in Churchill.)
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Hellfighter

#227
April 02, 2010, 11:54:13 PM  

CL

#228
April 04, 2010, 12:18:12 AM  
The oldest signal I can find in the whole state of Utah (though I haven't been actively searching for it by any stretch of the imagination). In Salt Lake City too! The lesser cross-street even has sensors for the light. This is an incredibly rare sight in a place where pretty much nothing from before the late-80s exists.
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Hellfighter

#229
April 04, 2010, 09:58:52 PM  

Hellfighter

#230
April 06, 2010, 10:51:22 PM  

Hellfighter

#231
April 13, 2010, 04:17:49 PM  

mightyace

#232
April 13, 2010, 08:37:42 PM  
Quote from: Hellfighter on April 13, 2010, 04:17:49 PM
More Decommissioned Mast Signals...

Why do they leave the signals in place?  Is that in case they want to reactivate them, or do they just don't want to spend the money to take them down?
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Hellfighter

#233
April 13, 2010, 11:28:08 PM  
Quote from: mightyace on April 13, 2010, 08:37:42 PM
Quote from: Hellfighter on April 13, 2010, 04:17:49 PM
More Decommissioned Mast Signals...

Why do they leave the signals in place?  Is that in case they want to reactivate them, or do they just don't want to spend the money to take them down?

My guess is that they don't want to spend the money to take them down, like these

thenetwork

#234
April 15, 2010, 08:33:08 PM  
You want to see some old traffic lights, eh. 

Check this out from the archives of Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH:  http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=any&CISOBOX1=traffic+lights&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOOP2=all&CISOBOX2=traffic+lights&CISOFIELD2=subjec&CISOROOT=all&t=s&CISOSTART=1,1

Hellfighter

#235
April 16, 2010, 04:13:46 PM  

US71

#236
April 16, 2010, 08:44:48 PM  



I need to go back and see if these are still there (Perry, OK). These photos are about 10 years old.
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Hellfighter

#237
April 16, 2010, 09:51:40 PM  
Quote from: US71 on April 16, 2010, 08:44:48 PM



I need to go back and see if these are still there (Perry, OK). These photos are about 10 years old.

According to street view they still are!

Alex

#238
April 18, 2010, 12:41:10 AM  
Saw this old set of signals one block off U.S. 84 in Jessup. We turned around and snapped a few photos. The signals are set to flash red.



Close-ups of the two signals:



Ian

#239
April 18, 2010, 09:39:03 PM  
Taken during the Baltimore meet:



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florida

#240
April 18, 2010, 10:07:38 PM  
So many roads...so little time.

Hellfighter

#241
May 01, 2010, 01:03:07 AM  

Hellfighter

#242
May 06, 2010, 01:29:45 PM  

joseph1723

#243
May 06, 2010, 02:05:08 PM  
Here's an older 8" light from downtown Toronto:

I'm guessing this one is from the 70's to 80s' but I'm not sure on it's age or make/model.

Ian

#244
May 06, 2010, 03:01:39 PM  
Quote from: joseph1723 on May 06, 2010, 02:05:08 PM
*8" Toronto Signal*
I'm guessing this one is from the 70's to 80s' but I'm not sure on it's age or make/model.

It appears to be a GE (General Electric), and a nice one at that.
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Scott5114

#245
May 06, 2010, 07:32:35 PM  
Do they have enough wires around it??
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Brandon

#246
May 07, 2010, 08:15:23 AM  
Quote from: Scott5114 on May 06, 2010, 07:32:35 PM
Do they have enough wires around it??

No.   :-P

Actually, the wires are for Toronto's streetcar system.
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rickmastfan67

#247
May 07, 2010, 09:25:03 PM  
Quote from: Brandon on May 07, 2010, 08:15:23 AM
Quote from: Scott5114 on May 06, 2010, 07:32:35 PM
Do they have enough wires around it??

No.   :-P

Actually, the wires are for Toronto's streetcar system.

That, or the old Electric Bus system depending on the location of that light.

jjakucyk

#248
May 07, 2010, 09:26:40 PM  
If it was for trolleybuses there'd be two parallel wires instead of just one.

joseph1723

#249
May 07, 2010, 09:47:37 PM  
Quote from: PennDOTFan on May 06, 2010, 03:01:39 PM
It appears to be a GE (General Electric), and a nice one at that.

Thanks, I'm not that that good at identifying traffic signal makes.

Quote from: Brandon on May 07, 2010, 08:15:23 AM
Actually, the wires are for Toronto's streetcar system.

Yeah the wires suspended over the roadway are for the streetcar system. The other ones are for the power distribution and phone systems.  Toronto still has a lot of overhead wiring in some parts of the city, even the power poles still have a old look to them with their wooden crossarms (not in the above pic)
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