I went to a steam up at a local railroad museum. Just static displays of couple cabooses, signals and other artifacts inside a depot that served 2 different railroads at Linden Indiana. The steam up was fun but we ran inside in the old baggage area with dim lighting so no pics of that. But the curator and his assistant just had to have my Countess and 4 passenger coaches. I named my price as it is to large to run on my new raised railway. He kept making offers as the day progressed and was getting close to what I needed for it. Then he asked if there was anything in the excess pile of signals and stuff. I got a complete grade crossing light with bell, pole with its mounting base at the bottom, 4 matching lights with good lenses and just minor bending of the targets and visors along with the proper flasher relay to make them work. To have purchased this locally from someone I know sells these things, would have cost me just over what I wanted for the train package. Took a bit with minimal tools on hand to disassemble the whole thing so it would fit in my friends truck. I will put it back together when I get a base made to bolt the thing upright in my railway area(looking for one of the metal prefab bases for it now vs pouring a concrete base).
Here are some pics of the crossing flasher signal and its relay that actually makes them work. I will put it all back together when I am able to erect the pole in my back garden. Its all alum, so not real heavy. Very early models in the USA were cast iron and extremely heavy! Mike
Here is the warning bell, it goes on top of the pole
Here is the pole, the base is at the far end
Here are the 4 light heads and mounting “spider”
And here is the huge relay that alternates the lights.
