New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad Interlocking tower Id tags

            Kingston RI SS133 ,  Braintree U-433 , Putnam Conn SS227 ,

Brian Duarte  came over for a visit  and proposed a smart idea 
to bring back these uber rare, as there can be only one or two 
of these signal station tower tags mounted on the tower , or building in existence just like the tower model boards suspended within the tower located within a interlocking . 

To bring them back to their respective state as for me 
I appreciate the font styling of these tags and actually would hope O-364 is out there to own so I had no real fever to keep 227 and I think it should be owned by someone in Connecticut appreciated but the state it belongs to.

 "early" interlocking images show around 1946  shows the removal of these tags kinda falls around the  time of  removal of interlockings plants En masse of the 50's  .
Manual stations and interlockings were decimated and the men and jobs the industry relied on .

Framingham a rarity  while they did remove all interlocking  towers in the 50's all but one remained onto 1983 
because the interlocking was desolate and didn't interfere with travel  and since it was manual the few trains that did go to Lowell and Fitchburg was few and remained manual for train routing and traffic protection since the leverman also did crossing duties at the interlocking on route 9.

South Framingham also boasted the last manually operated railroad crossing in the U.S. at Concord St.
I do think its longevity at Concord St was due to the fact of its central location from heavy traffic at Concord St and Waverly rte 16 and 135 . The railroad did have a tendency  to shut things down with a three track crossing at Concord and the secondary crossing at rte 135 as well as the "Y" tracks  for the CP yard . So Concord St was a saving grace for the simple fact of having a manned crossing attendant , their judgment in timing by  operating the manual crossing gates  afforded Police Fire and Ambulance to cross in emergency runs, by 1984 It was all automated .      

So I owned Putnam and Brian D owned Braintree and another owned (edit) Kingston .
I now own Braintree and  Brian now owns Kingston and Putnam goes home to Conn.   

The next question all be it understandable, is another 
New Haven tag that was sold on ebay and is not accounted for by whom owns it now. SS 165  Attleboro  in 2019. 

 It was sold around that time on ebay and I was a finger push away but I was out of work on an injury and wasn't comfortable on buying it.

Our hope is whoever has SS 165 tag knows what it is and what its from, other than a cool old sign with numbers it is possible 165 was sold to a person without railroad history knowledge as I remember the listing described only as 'old metal sign numbers iron' and no attribution of railroad or signal .  
These interlocking tag signs are certainly dateable 
each tower is in fact dated to the 'in service' date . 

In service dates are one of those popular must know by the public it generally is a good idea to include in service and apparently out of service dates these give good historical information of when a plant was installed how many revisions 
or if a plant location was changed/moved and what other buildings were included . These, I have some in service information  which will be included soon. 
   

Taken on: June 23, 2024

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