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Old Signal
Yet another light in storage.
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Old Signal

Yet another light in storage.

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Filename:IMG_1183.JPG
Album name:gailgrove / Traffic Signals
Keywords:Traffic_Lights
Filesize:357 KiB
Date added:May 12, 2011
Dimensions:2048 x 1536 pixels
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DateTime Original:2011:05:07 18:03:49
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Focal length:5.8 mm
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gailgrove   [May 12, 2011 at 09:14 PM]
Yeah, this was part of a display until last winter, I think it may be going back up tough.
Form109   [Jul 20, 2011 at 11:46 PM]
we could extinguish Niall's fires with those extinguishers. Smile
joe_347V   [Aug 05, 2011 at 02:18 AM]
This one must be older than mine too, this one has slotted screws instead of Robertson screws and has yellow paint under the visors. It might be old enough to use glass reflectors.
gailgrove   [Aug 05, 2011 at 01:13 PM]
I think this one has plastic lenses, they are arrows anyway's. I wish whoever set this up originally didn't drill that huge hole for the wire in the back, it kind of ruins the signal.
@Devonte, what the heck? Razz Laughing Shocked
joe_347V   [Aug 05, 2011 at 08:32 PM]
Odd, I guess the lenses were switched then, mine had glass lenses. I hate when people drill through signals to mount it or run wiring through it. Rolling Eyes
gailgrove   [Aug 05, 2011 at 08:43 PM]
I get the feeling this may of been used in a street car yard, that would explain the arrows.
joe_347V   [Aug 05, 2011 at 09:12 PM]
Yeah, what would you use arrows for on a two section vehicle signal. Very Happy
Did you take a look inside?
gailgrove   [Aug 05, 2011 at 09:18 PM]
I have looked inside before, not that much to see, just a reflector.
joe_347V   [Aug 05, 2011 at 09:20 PM]
Did the reflector look like this?
gailgrove   [Aug 05, 2011 at 11:23 PM]
I think they may of, but it was about a year ago and I don't fully remember, I'm likely heading to the museum tomorrow and I'll see if I can get a shot of the inside.
joe_347V   [Aug 05, 2011 at 11:32 PM]
Ok, cool, they should really put some of this stuff back on display though.
gailgrove   [Aug 07, 2011 at 08:50 PM]
Update: It seems this signal has disappeared! I have no idea where it went, hopefully not the scrap dumpster...
joe_347V   [Aug 07, 2011 at 09:48 PM]
Yeah hope it wasn't scrapped especially since a lot of older signals got scrapped during LED retrofits in my area.
gailgrove   [Aug 07, 2011 at 10:01 PM]
I doubt it was scrapped, most likely just moved somewhere else.
streetlight98   [Aug 08, 2011 at 12:56 AM]
All the signals stayed up here when they switched to those nonpixilated LEDs. We don't have many old traffic signals here anyways. the older vomit green ones in providence got replaced with more eye-pleasing black signals. Every other city uses yellow signals though.
gailgrove   [Aug 08, 2011 at 05:01 PM]
Here it seems most where kept when the LED conversion happened too.
joe_347V   [Aug 08, 2011 at 07:05 PM]
They junked almost all of the old signals during the LED conversion and replaced them with poly LED heads here.Confused
gailgrove   [Aug 08, 2011 at 07:24 PM]
Here most signals already where poly, but the aluminum ones where kept.
streetlight98   [Aug 08, 2011 at 09:58 PM]
Most are aluminum here. I know new installations are. Some are poly housings though.
joe_347V   [Aug 08, 2011 at 10:02 PM]
Most aluminium heads here were the ones that got retrofitted to LED, the new ones are all poly heads.

Oakville might still use aluminium heads though, I've seen aluminium 12" LED Econolites installed as recently as 2009.

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