Additional Railway Museum Collections and Examples
- Semaphore by Union Switch & Signal, Swissvale, Pennsylvania.
- Wig-Wag grade crossing signal (unknown builder, perhaps Pacific Electric signal shops) from Pacific Electric Railroad.
- Track Construction - Examples of three periods of 4'8½" standard-gauge track construction, and wheels on axle.
- Log sleepers (ties) nailed to (unknown weight) rail. Earliest method.
- Sleepers, uniform and square cut wood soaked in creosote preservative and surrounded by ballast, spiked to (unknown weight) 'T' rail which is joined with fishplates.
- Concrete sleepers, spring clipped to (unknown weight) rail which is joined with welds.
- Track switches - Various examples of switch points methods, frogs and switch stands/signals.
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