Railmaster at work

[The SIgnalman]

My railmaster - doing what it was designed to do, and doing it well.

 

[Walrus]

Great watch I really like them

 

[Walrus]

Cool job as well if I was drivin that train high on cocaine I’d be yelling “choo choo” even after work driving home

 

[chrisb732]

Awesome, thanks for sharing! I love seeing these. So what are you controlling there?

 

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chrisb732

Awesome, thanks for sharing! I love seeing these. So what are you controlling there?

One is definitely a golden lager, while two thru five appear to be red ales, six & seven must be stouts and eight strikes me as a lever to alert the fire brigade.

 

[Canuck]

I just serviced a Hamilton 992B pocket watch for a fellow who actually uses it in his role as a locomotive engineer! Mind you, he operates a diesel locomotive in an historic park which has several miles of rail. He has a cheap pocket watch as well, but he prefers to have the real thing. Part of the role he plays in the eye of the guests on his train.

 

[The SIgnalman]

chrisb732

Awesome, thanks for sharing! I love seeing these. So what are you controlling there?

It's equipment in a railway signal box, at a railway at which I'm a volunteer signalman.. What you can see are seven of the 16 levers. Red levers control 'stop' signals, yellow levers control 'distant' signals (which give advance warning to a driver that the following signal is 'ON', i.e. they have to stop), black levers control the points (known as a railroad switch in US terminology). Other equipment in the signal box include bells and tappers and block instruments for communicating with other signal boxes. On a busy day I'll be moving a lever, using a block instrument or sending/receiving a message via the bells and tappers on average once ever 11 seconds whilst mentally keeping track of three or four trains.