• Signal at Claremont Junction

  • Discussion relating to the pre-1983 B&M and MEC railroads. For current operations, please see the Pan Am Railways Forum.
Discussion relating to the pre-1983 B&M and MEC railroads. For current operations, please see the Pan Am Railways Forum.

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  by ThinkNarrow
 
Back in the 1950s and 1960s there was a signal facing southward at the point where the Claremont Branch met the B&M Connecticut Valley main line. It had a single light on top, then an arrangement of three lights, and then two lights at the bottom. Does anyone have any information about this signal?

Thanks!
-John
  by jaymac
 
Just guessing, but it could have been a US&S vertical color light installation for the interlocking. Vertical color lights have a simpler mechanism -- just relays for the lamps -- than searchlights, which have relays and actuators to move the color filters. Since Claremont probably wouldn't have been a high-speed run-through, the top light would show only red, the middle any of the three, and the bottom only red or yellow to provide a Medium Clear or more restrictive indication as needed.