{"id":30965,"date":"2021-04-05T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=30965"},"modified":"2021-04-05T08:08:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T12:08:37","slug":"hall-disc-signal-at-port-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/hall-disc-signal-at-port-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall Disc Signal at Port Clinton."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reading Company was among the most prolific users of the Hall Disc signal, one of the earliest forms of an electrically actuated signal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curiously, Reading continued to install new Hall Discs years after perfection of the electric three-position semaphore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few of Reading\u2019s Halls survived into the diesel era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading & Northern, which operates significant sections of the old Reading Company, installed this recreated Hall Disc near its Port Clinton, Pennsylvania offices in homage to Reading\u2019s classic signaling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2014, I made this sequence of photos using Pat Yough\u2019s FujiFilm XT1, on a trip to photograph R&N\u2019s 4-6-2 Pacific number 425 that was running Christmas trips to Schuylkill Haven and Minersville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that I\u2019ve endeavored to recreate the Reading Company in HO Scale, I\u2019ve stumbled upon a quandary: How to make operating scale models of the antique Hall Disc signal? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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