Re: NNG: Operational Wig-Wag at the CRRM . . .

Chris Walker Wrote:
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> that's precisely the reason I went and found
> it after reading same 10+ years ago, I'd spent
> most of that Winter searching town after town
> in streetview to find one still extant, amazed
> when I checked streetview earlier today that
> it was still there.  Until I found that one I had
> never seen one of these American Railroad
> icons on any of my previous trips b]. . .[/b]


Chris et al -

IIRC, the late, great 'U.P. Joe' Passentino of the Calif. State RR Museum restored a "lower quadrant" wig-wag about forty years ago.  It's just inside the southeast corner of the main museum building in Old Town Sacramento – where it's nearly impossible to get a good photo – but SFAIK it still lights up, rings its bell and wags its tail about every five minutes or so . . .

(Joe is at the far left in the fourth photo on [ngdiscussion.net].)

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/08/2020 11:29AM by Russo Loco.