Big Train Tours - Colorado Crossings: The Last Wig Wag

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  • Опубліковано 28 лис 2024

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  • @rgsrrofnc
    @rgsrrofnc Рік тому +1

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

  • @WesternOhioInterurbanHistory
    @WesternOhioInterurbanHistory 2 роки тому +9

    Glad it made it somewhere safe.

  • @DougCeleste
    @DougCeleste Рік тому +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.

  • @zachfarr6457
    @zachfarr6457 Рік тому +2

    The history of the railroad crossings is interesting

  • @dominicliner1609
    @dominicliner1609 2 роки тому +3

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

  • @PlyingKibbles89
    @PlyingKibbles89 3 роки тому +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.

  • @michaelgmoore5708
    @michaelgmoore5708 2 роки тому +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.

  • @donald3211
    @donald3211 Рік тому +1

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

  • @harrisonofcolorado8886
    @harrisonofcolorado8886 3 роки тому +7

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

  • @RyansColoradoRailProductions
    @RyansColoradoRailProductions 3 роки тому +10

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

    • @Sunset4Semaphores
      @Sunset4Semaphores 2 роки тому +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 роки тому +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.

  • @josephcarson8382
    @josephcarson8382 3 роки тому +6

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

  • @amandap569
    @amandap569 Рік тому +1

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

    • @molossis
      @molossis 9 місяців тому +1

      isnt that wat this video was about??

  • @ethanarmitage5611
    @ethanarmitage5611 3 роки тому +3

    Cool train video.

  • @ronaldmackall1621
    @ronaldmackall1621 Рік тому +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.

  • @Thunderbolt_1000AT
    @Thunderbolt_1000AT 2 роки тому +1

    This wig wag was at Delhi

    • @rortify
      @rortify 2 роки тому +2

      thank you captain obvious

  • @Brian_rock_railfan
    @Brian_rock_railfan 2 роки тому +2

    great video

  • @MilePost106
    @MilePost106 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @molossis
    @molossis 9 місяців тому +1

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

  • @WesternOhioInterurbanHistory
    @WesternOhioInterurbanHistory 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @sircampbell1249
    @sircampbell1249 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @SplitSnow
    @SplitSnow 2 роки тому +4

    Also there are 4 abandoned wig wags in lindsay CA.

    • @microbusss
      @microbusss 2 роки тому +2

      gimmies!!

    • @SplitSnow
      @SplitSnow 2 роки тому +2

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

    • @microbusss
      @microbusss 2 роки тому +1

      @@SplitSnow don't live there😜

    • @T128Productions
      @T128Productions 3 дні тому

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

    • @microbusss
      @microbusss День тому

      @@T128Productions oh nooo rather ask permission for them

  • @TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan
    @TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan 2 роки тому +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?

  • @microbusss
    @microbusss 2 роки тому +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 роки тому +1

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

    • @microbusss
      @microbusss Рік тому +1

      @@PlyingKibbles89 ok hope someone donates it to here someday

    • @PlyingKibbles89
      @PlyingKibbles89 Рік тому +1

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

  • @dj_sworak
    @dj_sworak 3 роки тому +3

    make it work!

    • @crrm
      @crrm  2 роки тому +2

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

  • @SplitSnow
    @SplitSnow 2 роки тому +2

    what is that griswold signal: 11:19

  • @Blocksguyoldchannel
    @Blocksguyoldchannel 3 роки тому +2

    Yay epic

  • @fabriciobengozi9650
    @fabriciobengozi9650 7 місяців тому +1

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