Finally
after many years of searching, I found a wigwag for sale at a "reasonable"
price. I gave up on hoping to find one for scrap value...or less, from
a railroad. It's now at the point where there are just too few left to
wait for. The photos on the next 3 pages are a sort of "step-by-step" that
I went through to restore this signal. It is not by any means an "official"
restoration guide. It's just what I experienced when I rebuilt mine. I
would like to thank Jim Downard, former signal maintainer for Southern
Pacific, for the countless e-mails of tech support throughout the project.
(To learn
more about Jim, click on the link)
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This is what I started with. Very rusty...but it worked, as you can see below. It came from the City of Orange, CA, on the Santa Fe line. Thanks to Larry Campbell for driving it up to San Francisco from Barstow. And yes, that is a simple model railroad transformer that I used to power it! They run off 8-10 VDC. |
The Project
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