A sad time for us folks who are fond of the former “Standard railroad of the world” .
Curt
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I'm so old I remember Pennsy position light signals filling four track signal bridges. All the way from NYC to Philly to Chicago.
Lew
I saw quite a few Pennsy position light signals on the LIRR while visiting on Long Island yesterday.
Yep, sad to see the old PRR signals coming down after only 90+ years. I was in the Pittsburgh area last weekend and while driving through Sewickley I met an NS stack train headed North. It was passing under an ex-PRR 4-track signal bridge with position light signals for southbound trains. The 4 heads showed stop (on the track with the stack train on it), clear, clear and approach. What was extra special was that the stop indication was 3 horizontal amber lights, not the 2 red lights (with no center light) that most of the signals became in the 60's. If it wouldn't have caused a major traffic pile up, I would have stopped to take a photo!
