Willis Lamm's
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FIXED FOUR-WAY SIGNALS In the New Millennium |
| Midvale, OH |
Sargent-Sowell and Crouse-Hinds type DT. (Barnhill Road and State Street)
(Both signals were refurbished and retrofitted with LED indications after this street view was taken.)
| Modern Optics |
| A number of older fixed four-way signals have been retrofitted with modern energy saving LED optics. While to a signal purist LEDs are somewhat foreign looking in a classic signal, they are a means to keep old signals in service, meet modern demands, and are relatively maintenance free. |
| Fostoria, OH |
Crouse-Hinds DT. (Main and North Streets)
| UTICA, NY |
Crouse-Hinds DT. (Bleecker St. and Jefferson Ave.)
Crouse-Hinds DT. (Rutger and John Streets)
Close-up view. (Rutger and John Streets)
| 4-ways are not immune to adaptations to either conform with the standard that arrow indications are supposed to be 12 inch or to increase the effectiveness of a single stop indication in an area with a great deal of background light. Here is an example. |
Crouse-Hinds DT with a 12-inch adapter. (Bleecker St. and St. Anthony Drive.)
(Also, the yellow indications appear to still be incandescent.)
| This one is a DT cluster, but it shows an ingenious way to tag on a protected left turn indication. |
Crouse-Hinds DT cluster with protected left turn indication. (Bleecker St. and Mohawk St..)
| In some locations the yellow indications were equipped with tunnel visors on signals that otherwise had cutaway visors. The usual rationale for this configuration was to limit "side splash" of the yellow light into nearby bedroom windows. |
Crouse-Hinds DT with yellow indication tunnels. (Eagle St. & Kossuth Ave.)
Crouse-Hinds type M with yellow indication tunnels. (South St. and Kossuth Ave.)
| Dunedin, FL |
Most likely TSIs or Teecos (Main St. and Douglas Ave.)
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