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[Gone] Old CGE 8-8-8
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Here's an old CGE 8-8-8 (with glass GE lenses, like mine) still in use in Niagara Falls as of early April.
The 8-8-8 traffic lights have become a rare find nowadays as Toronto removed the last 8-8-8 in early February of this year. Mississauga still has some 8-8-8s left in use but they've been converted to LED using GE RX-11 (AKA GELcore) modules.
It looks like this one's days might be numbered too as it's partner across the street was removed (see below) sometime between last summer and this april.
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Surprisingly Toronto has a 8-8-8-8 signal in use and I'm not talking about the streetcar ones.
The earliest signals from the 20s and 30s were cast in one piece and had to be ordered in 1,2,3, or 4 section units.
Later signals from the 40s and later were sectional but they were tied together but endplates and tie rods(the sections had open tops and bottoms).
The current signals (late 50s and later) have the endplate cast as part of the section body which bolt together.