Our New Semaphore at Laughlin Junction! 

I would assume they would be. I also am prone to icing in position in bad weather!

The Boston and Maine Railroad's former "Cheshire Branch (in SW NH)" also used the US&S Style B lower quadrant semaphores (between 1911-1958), however, they were placed offset of each other (supposedly for extra protection) by at least 1/2 mile apart, as opposed to those placed side by side, for both directions, at the start of each block. All of them on this track utilized two heads, for both HOME and DISTANT aspects. Fascinating facts about the B&M signals used there were that any preceding signal to an upcoming depot the DISTANT heads were connected to their TRAIN ORDER BOARDS so to provide an APPROACH aspect should the Station Agent need to provide the oncoming train's crews with any train orders.

Yes! Those lower quadrant semaphore type signals were chain operated, by an electric motor, so to "pick up" the signal head (as they were counterbalanced, so to "fall back" to a STOP/DANGER indication in the case of power or mechanism failure). They also utilized air cylinder "buffers" so as to not allow the signal head to fall hard when it returns to a STOP/DANGER position.

It a mix of heavier rail 100lb all the way up to 132lb

@@Stoker58 Wow! Some pretty heavy rail.

@@WAL_DC-6B yeah! A lot easier to come by these days than the lighter stuff especially when you get in trackwork like switches. Plus we also host what is probably the heaviest 2ft locomotive around haha