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Same picture as this one www.deviantart.com/willm3luvtr… only colored.

After seeing a real railroad crossing signal like this, well two, I decided to try drawing one like it. And I did a four different dimensions:
Frontal side view
Rear/side view
Complete side view (where gate comes down toward you)
Complete side view (where gate goes down away from you)
This is a crossing signal where the mast splits just above the gate mechanism (or what I call a "Y-shaped crossing signal") The crossing signal looks weird like this but there's a reason why it was designed like this. It's because of the wishbone gate and the gate having two bottom sections unlike the single simple boom gates we see and use today in the U.S. With the bottom gate sections being so far apart, a big gap between the bottom parts, it's too wide to fit on a standard mast signal and the gates would not fit between the lights on the signal. The gate would end up hitting the lights if it was on a standard signal, although there are, or were standard non-splitting signal that have wishbone gates. But I guess they made the wishbone gates so wide, excessively spaced out.

To see a real signal like this one (note, whatever wishbone gate was on this signal is long gone so you won't see it but you will see the signal) www.rxrsignals.com/Alabama/G-Q… It's in Odenville, Alabama.

I also saw a signal like this on a TV documentary or something called "Street Stories." In fact the signal I saw in the show is what made me draw this www.deviantart.com/willm3luvtr… I didn't know until I saw "Street Stories" again recently, a few days ago if you will, that that was not two mast signals with a wishbone gate, that was a single mast signal that splits into two mast signals above the gate mechanism, or a "Y-shaped" signal. And that makes more sense because who would install a mast signal with a crossbuck and forward-facing lights and behind it a separate mast signal with the gate and a set of rear-facing flashers? Well, maybe I would.

Anyway, if you haven't seen Street Stories, and if you don't mind seeing cars race trains to crossings and don't get easily angered by that kind of thing like I tend to do, you should see it. I think it's also titled "Risky Business." But it's a show about Norfolk Southern engineers talking about how they see cars racing trains to crossings and how they've hit some. And lots of cars are seen racing and beating trains going around gates, and also an 8" mast signal in Lafayette, Indiana getting knocked over by a semi truck that got hit by a Norfolk Southern train (said to be heading to St. Louis on "Train Wrecks," hosted by retired Sheriff John Bunnell) and then knocking over a nearby railroad block signal. I saw the show thanks to Mike Hickok and the out-of-production DVD video "TV Signals," it was free with the purchase of any DVD of railroad crossing videos filmed by him and others and in places like Arizona, California, Nevada, and Michigan. If you have any of the videos you should know what I'm talking about. I don't think you can buy them anymore now that Mike is dead.

I also saw a "Y-shaped" signal with a wishbone gate on a little-kid's book titled "STOP LOOK AND LISTEN FOR TRAINS." I think that book is out of print though and I cannot find it even on Google. The book cover has a railroad crossing with a Y-shaped signal, a gate with two gate lights, a car, a school bus, and some pedestrian children waiting at the crossing.

But yeah, some signals that had wishbone gates on them were designed like that so that the lights wouldn't be in the way of the gate and I think they're very hard to find these days!

My signal in the pictures has 8" lights, a type 1 mechanical bell on the back part of the signal and the gate has 4" lights. And although the wishbone gates are red and white in my picture, it's highly possible they also did this with black and white gates too. I also decided to make the gate mechanism W.R.R.S.

Looking at signal 1, I think I put the forward and rear flashing lights too far apart or made the wishbone gate too thin, there's more than enough space between the gate and the flashers!

I also colored the background so that the unstriped parts of the wishbone gates wouldn't blend in with the background.

There is one other oddly-shaped crossing signal that accommodated wishbone gates, may draw that some day.

I have one more drawing of the "Y-shaped" signal and at an actual crossing with a train. www.deviantart.com/willm3luvtr…

Permission granted to use my picture but please credit me for it. And if you want to try to find "Street Stories," the kid's book "STOP, LOOK, and LISTEN for TRAINS," or find a "Y-shaped" signal, have fun with all that!

Description
Same picture as this one www.deviantart.com/willm3luvtr… only colored.

After seeing a real railroad crossing signal like this, well two, I decided to try drawing one like it. And I did a four different dimensions:
Frontal side view
Rear/side view
Complete side view (where gate comes down toward you)
Complete side view (where gate goes down away from you)
This is a crossing signal where the mast splits just above the gate mechanism (or what I call a "Y-shaped crossing signal") The crossing signal looks weird like this but there's a reason why it was designed like this. It's because of the wishbone gate and the gate having two bottom sections unlike the single simple boom gates we see and use today in the U.S. With the bottom gate sections being so far apart, a big gap between the bottom parts, it's too wide to fit on a standard mast signal and the gates would not fit between the lights on the signal. The gate would end up hitting the lights if it was on a standard signal, although there are, or were standard non-splitting signal that have wishbone gates. But I guess they made the wishbone gates so wide, excessively spaced out.

To see a real signal like this one (note, whatever wishbone gate was on this signal is long gone so you won't see it but you will see the signal) www.rxrsignals.com/Alabama/G-Q… It's in Odenville, Alabama.

I also saw a signal like this on a TV documentary or something called "Street Stories." In fact the signal I saw in the show is what made me draw this www.deviantart.com/willm3luvtr… I didn't know until I saw "Street Stories" again recently, a few days ago if you will, that that was not two mast signals with a wishbone gate, that was a single mast signal that splits into two mast signals above the gate mechanism, or a "Y-shaped" signal. And that makes more sense because who would install a mast signal with a crossbuck and forward-facing lights and behind it a separate mast signal with the gate and a set of rear-facing flashers? Well, maybe I would.

Anyway, if you haven't seen Street Stories, and if you don't mind seeing cars race trains to crossings and don't get easily angered by that kind of thing like I tend to do, you should see it. I think it's also titled "Risky Business." But it's a show about Norfolk Southern engineers talking about how they see cars racing trains to crossings and how they've hit some. And lots of cars are seen racing and beating trains going around gates, and also an 8" mast signal in Lafayette, Indiana getting knocked over by a semi truck that got hit by a Norfolk Southern train (said to be heading to St. Louis on "Train Wrecks," hosted by retired Sheriff John Bunnell) and then knocking over a nearby railroad block signal. I saw the show thanks to Mike Hickok and the out-of-production DVD video "TV Signals," it was free with the purchase of any DVD of railroad crossing videos filmed by him and others and in places like Arizona, California, Nevada, and Michigan. If you have any of the videos you should know what I'm talking about. I don't think you can buy them anymore now that Mike is dead.

I also saw a "Y-shaped" signal with a wishbone gate on a little-kid's book titled "STOP LOOK AND LISTEN FOR TRAINS." I think that book is out of print though and I cannot find it even on Google. The book cover has a railroad crossing with a Y-shaped signal, a gate with two gate lights, a car, a school bus, and some pedestrian children waiting at the crossing.

But yeah, some signals that had wishbone gates on them were designed like that so that the lights wouldn't be in the way of the gate and I think they're very hard to find these days!

My signal in the pictures has 8" lights, a type 1 mechanical bell on the back part of the signal and the gate has 4" lights. And although the wishbone gates are red and white in my picture, it's highly possible they also did this with black and white gates too. I also decided to make the gate mechanism W.R.R.S.

Looking at signal 1, I think I put the forward and rear flashing lights too far apart or made the wishbone gate too thin, there's more than enough space between the gate and the flashers!

I also colored the background so that the unstriped parts of the wishbone gates wouldn't blend in with the background.

There is one other oddly-shaped crossing signal that accommodated wishbone gates, may draw that some day.

I have one more drawing of the "Y-shaped" signal and at an actual crossing with a train. www.deviantart.com/willm3luvtr…

Permission granted to use my picture but please credit me for it. And if you want to try to find "Street Stories," the kid's book "STOP, LOOK, and LISTEN for TRAINS," or find a "Y-shaped" signal, have fun with all that!