Big Train Tours - Colorado Crossings: The Last Wig Wag

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  • Опубликовано: 30 дек 2024

Комментарии • 42

  • @DougCeleste
    @DougCeleste Год назад +2

    GREAT video and thanks for sharing! I now live in Albuquerque and have traveled to Colorado many times over the decades but have yet to visit your wonderful museum. I will have to put it on my traveling "bucket list." 😎 Growing up in San Jose, we had lower quadrant wig wags that always fascinated me when they were swinging.

  • @WesternOhioInterurbanHistory
    @WesternOhioInterurbanHistory 2 года назад +9

    Glad it made it somewhere safe.

  • @PlyingKibbles89
    @PlyingKibbles89 3 года назад +12

    Nice wigwag history video! I actually took the photo at 12:25 of the modern signals at the museum. Hopefully, I can see the wigwag at the museum in the near future for the first time since I last saw it at Delhi.

  • @rgsrrofnc
    @rgsrrofnc Год назад +1

    I hope you put it out in a newsletter or a later video showing where it is being displayed.

  • @zachfarr6457
    @zachfarr6457 Год назад +2

    The history of the railroad crossings is interesting

  • @donald3211
    @donald3211 Год назад +1

    If you would check California still has wigwags in some areas of the city and they are still being used to the

  • @dominicliner1609
    @dominicliner1609 2 года назад +3

    I pass through that wig wag railway crossing signal on the Southwest Chief train back in 2009.

  • @RyansColoradoRailProductions
    @RyansColoradoRailProductions 3 года назад +10

    The wigwag was actually removed on March 9th, not March 12th.

    • @Sunset4Semaphores
      @Sunset4Semaphores 2 года назад +2

      Correct, but... close enough? In the scope of history decades from now, the year will be the only thing remembered as important.

    • @RyansColoradoRailProductions
      @RyansColoradoRailProductions 2 года назад +1

      @@Sunset4Semaphores I’m the kind of person that remembers exact dates, I’m well aware that I’m most likely the only one that cares about the date.

  • @harrisonofcolorado8886
    @harrisonofcolorado8886 3 года назад +7

    I hope to go to the CRM soon and see the Wig Wag.

  • @michaelgmoore5708
    @michaelgmoore5708 3 года назад +3

    My brother and me would ride our bicycles down 1st street in Santa Ana, California almost every day to the Santa Fe Railroad passenger station in 1962 to stand at the busy 1st St. RR crossing to watch the 2 lower hanging type Wig Wags swinging just before the huge PA 1 PA 2 Santa Fe Diesels would come roaring by blowing their loud Air chime horns. Really miss all that beautiful art work on the engines, passenger cars and of course the beautiful Wig Wag signals.

  • @ronaldmackall1621
    @ronaldmackall1621 Год назад +1

    I want to know what happened to the signage we saw at 2:23. It was installed at a dangerous RR crossing in Grenada, Mississippi in the 1930s.

  • @josephcarson8382
    @josephcarson8382 3 года назад +6

    so you're talking about the Delhi wig wag? i knew it was going to you

  • @amandap569
    @amandap569 Год назад +1

    Unfortunately, the Delhi, CO wigwag has been replaced with different signals.

    • @molossis
      @molossis 10 месяцев назад +2

      isnt that wat this video was about??

  • @molossis
    @molossis 10 месяцев назад +1

    2:23
    i found a video on that crossing and i cant find it, someone please tell me where to find it

  • @ExplodoShooter
    @ExplodoShooter 3 года назад +4

    Also there are 4 abandoned wig wags in lindsay CA.

    • @microbusss
      @microbusss 3 года назад +2

      gimmies!!

    • @ExplodoShooter
      @ExplodoShooter 3 года назад +2

      @@microbusss i swear to god if you steal one of those wig wags

    • @microbusss
      @microbusss 3 года назад +1

      @@ExplodoShooter don't live there😜

    • @T128Productions
      @T128Productions Месяц назад

      @@microbusssMore like don’t steal anything if you want to live there.

    • @microbusss
      @microbusss Месяц назад

      @@T128Productions oh nooo rather ask permission for them

  • @WesternOhioInterurbanHistory
    @WesternOhioInterurbanHistory 2 года назад +1

    7:41
    This is from the flim "Safe Roads"

  • @ethanarmitage5611
    @ethanarmitage5611 3 года назад +3

    Cool train video.

  • @sircampbell1249
    @sircampbell1249 2 года назад +1

    Music in back over voice makes this hard to hear..

  • @TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan
    @TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan 3 года назад +4

    I always noticed that your first wig wag signal is still not swinging are there any plans to fix the swing mechanism on the banner?

  • @MilePost106
    @MilePost106 3 года назад +2

    Ever get a chance to visit this museum? Do it!

  • @Brian_rock_railfan
    @Brian_rock_railfan 2 года назад +2

    great video

  • @microbusss
    @microbusss 3 года назад +4

    some of these crossing signs & signals I'd like to find
    I hope you got the sign "Colorado's last wig wag"

    • @PlyingKibbles89
      @PlyingKibbles89 2 года назад +1

      That ended up being removed around 2002, likely by a BNSF employee.

    • @microbusss
      @microbusss Год назад +1

      @@PlyingKibbles89 ok hope someone donates it to here someday

    • @PlyingKibbles89
      @PlyingKibbles89 Год назад +1

      @@microbusss It's very likely it doesn't even exist anymore.

  • @Thunderbolt_1000AT
    @Thunderbolt_1000AT 2 года назад +1

    This wig wag was at Delhi

    • @rortify
      @rortify 2 года назад +3

      thank you captain obvious

  • @ExplodoShooter
    @ExplodoShooter 3 года назад +2

    what is that griswold signal: 11:19

  • @Blocksguyoldchannel
    @Blocksguyoldchannel 3 года назад +2

    Yay epic

  • @dj_sworak
    @dj_sworak 3 года назад +3

    make it work!

    • @crrm
      @crrm  3 года назад +2

      It will be available for guests to operate at some point down the line.

  • @fabriciobengozi9650
    @fabriciobengozi9650 8 месяцев назад +1

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