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I've added VisiSig heads to the SafeTrans, so now you can see them hopefully before running past the red-signal!



They are available at the usual place!

I am having trouble finding information on type of signal head. What Roads typically use them, and how do they differ from what the standard fare in game?

SafeTran is a subsidiary of InvenSys rail group, and it is the successor to the Griswold Signal Company. These signals are used all over the US, and are being used as replacements for older signals. They are similar in design to Progress Rail Groups - Lincoln Industries signals.

SafeTran offers hooded and hoodless signals - i've chosen the hooded ones because those are the ones being used on the NS line closest to my home. They are offered in versions that use the Railworks standard signalling scripts (USDEF) and ones that use Pikehkr's NS-specific signal scripts.

The difference between the regular signal heads and the VisiSig is that the VisiSig heads have changes to the LOD's so that you can see the signal from a further distance than the originals. The signal lens gets larger as you move away, simulating the brightness that you would see on the prototype. Without this, it's very difficult to see RW signals beyond about 100 meters.

PapaXpress wrote:I am having trouble finding information on type of signal head. What Roads typically use them, and how do they differ from what the standard fare in game?

BN just finished re signalling the old SP&S line through the Columbia gorge with Safetran signals, and are now installing them on the Oregon Trunk from Wishram to Chemult.

UPRR also updated their signals on the South side of the Columbia gorge in the last two years to Safetran. The Portland to Seattle line is mixed searchlight and Safetran, and slowly being upgraded.

With both reworks, they have laid optical fiber cables for the railroads operations, and to rent for data lines to others. With that change, the old copper telegraph lines are fading and gone.

Interestingly enough, SafeTran offers a searchlight-type signal, though it's not quite the same as the old USS signals...

SMMDigital wrote:Interestingly enough, SafeTran offers a searchlight-type signal, though it's not quite the same as the old USS signals...

Picture, please.

It's so sad to see the good ol' Searchies going away.
UP also slowly replaces them in the Feather River Canyon.

http://www.safetran.com/product/Signal/pdf%20Csection/SIG%20C-1-1.pdf

The V20-R can display 1-to-3 signals in a V-formation with a rouded back shield. The CLS model can also be configued in a single light with a rounded backshield.

In my reasearch on the Searchlight signals, it is said that the US&S signals were the brightest and longest casting signals used by the railroads. Their downfall however was that they were difficult to service and maintain, and they had to be rigorously calibrated when serviced. Signal maintaners were none to happy about having to deal with them.

In a correction to my previous post, Lincoln Industries (Progress Rail) does not list wayside signals in their online catalog, only the structures that hold them. That is the reason you may see a SafeTran signal posted on a Lincoln mast, gantry, or bridge.