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What's a "Semaphore"?


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In the simplest of terms it's a flag used for signalling. Also, the railroads used to have semaphore types of signalling devices where arms were raised or lowered to indicate different things to engineers and brakemen. These semaphores were on poles along side the tracks. Look at the graphic in this cache of mine and you will see a railroad semaphore:

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=52013

 

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Great! And I always thought that was just called the train signal....lol. Anyway, that wasn't at this station anymore either. But I guess if the concrete signal box wasn't there, then this semaphore probably wouldn't be there either, since the signal box probably controlled the semaphore. Thanks for the help. I'm a newbie at this, (just finally found my first one), and didn't have much luck today finding these things. Finally found three that were along the railroad tracks. Guess they don't move or widen those as often as they do the roadways...lol

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Your question serves a useful purpose here. It can now be referenced by entering it in the search box at the bottom of this forum. Which is a good place to go if you have other questions. You'll also find that benchmarks and railroads have an intermingled history.

When I was a Boy Scout, almost 50 yrs ago, I had everything passed for my First Class rank, except the code requirement. I had the choice of Morse code or semaphores. I chose girls. This ended my Scout career and I'm still trying to figure out girls.

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