So I happened to be watching one of Distant Signal's recent videos on Youtube about CSX's project to signal the Brunswick Sub into a second main line track north of Waycross yard and at the 10:25 mark I noticed a new trademark logo on a square modular signal head.
In case you can't see it's the mark of Progress Rail, the division of Caterpillar that owns EMD. It turns out that Progress Rail does manufacture a limited set of railroad and grade crossing related signal equipment including a modular signal system that feels like something you'd get if a GRE D type married an L&W.
Speaking of L&W, I'm not sure what Progress' angle is seeing that whatever scraps Safetran is leaving behind is currently gobbled up by L&W or Lindsay (formerly GE Harmon). In fact the video only shows the Progress signals on the ground with the new erected signal masts having, what else, Safetran CLS-20's. 🙄
I like the little colored marks on the back of the modules, which I assume are the lens colors.
ReplyDeleteI've seen references to Progress Rail signals, but have never seen one in the wild