Lights and Traffic signals etc.

[Model25FanForever]

Yea its the only CGE's with timers on it here. It looks like the second one actually. I have heard about the 410 possible widening from clark blvd to bovaird. It does I try avoiding being on that highway.    Yea but the shoebox models in Brampton look much better than York and Erin Mills. They are painted better here too.

[Model25FanForever]

I found  pics from 1996 of Davit poles on Clark Blvd.
I believe that is a R47 on the pole. Currently there is a R47 there.

[Model25FanForever]

Another photo. Davit poles. New concrete poles. Double Guy arm with CGE signal in the background

[joe_347V]

Interesting, pictures. I didn't know Brampton had davit arms before. You have the link where you got the pics from?

[Model25FanForever]

A site my grandfather showed me and as I went through I saw the davit poles they used to use on this street.

http://www.barp.ca/bus/ontario/brampt/1978d800b/index.html

[Model25FanForever]

Fortran Hanger. Double Guy arm!!! Very few of them left.




Not sure what type of signal this is but its the only advanced of this kind here.



Model 25 with Fortran signals.

[joe_347V]

Interesting, York Region, Markham and Toronto still has some old double guys with hangers left.

The aluminium left turn signal is probably a LFE aluminium or a Eagle Mark IV. It was originally incandescent but it looks like they converted it to LED now. 

[Model25FanForever]

Yea I think its a Eagle Mark IV. I know its not aluminum. There are only 3 double guy arms here and 2 of them are going to be taken down because of road expansion. This will be the last one here.

More pics I took


Another Model 25


McGraw Unidoor 400. I don't see many of these here. I only see them a lot in Oakville and parts of York region.




OVX the new prismatic refractors. Was a R47 before this was put here. I like this one better than the normal OVX.



CGE 8-8-8. The last hanger version left in Brampton and this one might come down. Construction down the road 20 feet or so from there.


Which westinghouse is this again?



OVX

[joe_347V]

Hmm, if it's a Mark IV it's a aluminium light since they were never made in poly (GTE did but I never see their signals in Ontario) Interesting that a hanger mounted CGE 8-8-8 is still in use in Brampton. What's the intersection it's on so I could look it up on Google?

The Westy light is a OV-15 but I'm not sure if it's a later Cooper one or a Westy one. The way to tell is from where the PC socket is but this one dosen't have one.

[Model25FanForever]

These are all the hanger 8-8-8's in Brampton. Only the Dixie one is still there. (1)

The last hanger CGE here

(1) http://goo.gl/maps/7d5Ly

(2)This intersections 8-8-8 was replaced in March.

http://goo.gl/maps/PIY6n

(3) Its a Fortran in the streetview but it was about a month before then it was replaced.

http://goo.gl/maps/7RhTv

(4) This one was actually replaced 2 weeks ago!

http://goo.gl/maps/wRKg4

[joe_347V]

Ahh, it looks like Brampton is rapidly replacing the last of their 8-8-8s. I believe Toronto started mass changing them out in the late 2000s with the last three removed by early 2012.




One of the last 8-8-8s in Toronto, pic was taken in November 2011. It was replaced with a TCT poly in February 2012. Also remained fully incandescent for almost two years after the last incandescent signals in Toronto were retrofitted.

York Region seemed to be the first to replace the 8-8-8s though, I believe by the mid-2000s they were all gone.



This is the only pic I took of a 8-8-8 in Markham. It's a video still from a video shot in spring 2004 or so. By 2006-2007 all the signals at this intersection would be replaced with 12-8-8 Eagle Durasigs (still hanger mounted though). Unfortunately my camera at the time took horrible pictures and videos.

Mississauga still has some 8-8-8s left though.

A pair of Fortran 8-8-8s

Oddly they're new enough to be plastic, and plumbizer mounted. Another odd thing is the 8-8-8 on the right hand pole. Normally a 12-8-8 is used.

Ancient CGE 8-8-8

It's probably from either the 50s or 60s as it still has the first gen CGE back. Newer CGE 8-8-8 on the opposite side of the intersection.

Dixie near Dundas

I believe this one dates to either the 70s or the 80s...

[Model25FanForever]

Dixie Road has been a hot spot for 8-8-8's I always knew the Mississauga ones were there. Brampton was surprising seeing them. The Northern part of Toronto seems to still have quite a few of them. Interesting, the 8-8-8's in your pic look like Fortran hangers. Unless its just the quality that made it look that way.

[joe_347V]

Unfortunately all the 8-8-8s left in North York (which stayed incandescent and had a ton of 8-8-8s the longest) were removed starting in mid 2009. By the summer of 2010 they were all gone and the 12-8-8s converted to LED.

I'm not sure of the model of signal used in my pic since the video is so bad but it's probably either a new looking CGE, Fortran, or a Eagle Mark IV.

Also I found this weird setup in Toronto today:



Fortran pedestrian signal arm mounted using a plumbizer, O_o I've seen them arm mounted before but with a hanger.  

 

[Model25FanForever]

AHaha yes I have seen those. They are strange looking I don't know why they wouldn't just use a hanger for it or have on the side of the pole. Plumbizer ped signals is just a weird setup.

[joe_347V]

Yeah, a hanger would have looked better and less odd. And plus they had to uncouple the sections to add a plumbizer so extra work was needed.

Waterloo region seems to like using hanger mounted pedestrian signals though.