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Re: "Chicago" - "Mini ESSCO?" used around Parks? PICS ADDED

Postby LarryC39 on Tue Jul 23, 2013 10:20 pm

3liteguy wrote:
vaughn wrote:I need to lose some wait to gain entrance to this most fascinating room of 3liteguy :drool: that and be there on time, seems some odd hours to me :scratch:


:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

No that pic is from Dave's collection in Ohio and the 'entrance' is at LarryC's house of pain
museum of signal specialties. To date I am still Essco free :cry:


No, you had one, albeit for a short time. ;)
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Re: "Chicago" - "Mini ESSCO?" used around Parks? PICS ADDED

Postby LarryC39 on Tue Jul 23, 2013 10:21 pm

techtiques wrote:Thanks Fred for pointing me toward the right thread.

I looked at the ESSCO restoration that Larry had to actually cast-up parts for on Sunday -- but missed the silver standard ESSCO restoration thread.

It looks like the standard ESSCO uses similar door hold-downs and thumb screws to the Tokheim pictured above. Anybody out there have samples I can beg, borrow or buy so I can replace the ones that I need for my restoration?

I have added 8 pictures to the first post.


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I have info on the thumb-bolts and latch plates. Give me a couple of days toget them off the old PC.

Latch plates are just a piece of bent bar stock.
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Re: "Chicago" - "Mini ESSCO?" used around Parks? PICS ADDED

Postby 3liteguy on Wed Jul 24, 2013 8:44 am

LarryC39 wrote:
3liteguy wrote:
vaughn wrote:I need to lose some wait to gain entrance to this most fascinating room of 3liteguy :drool: that and be there on time, seems some odd hours to me :scratch:


:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

No that pic is from Dave's collection in Ohio and the 'entrance' is at LarryC's house of pain
museum of signal specialties. To date I am still Essco free :cry:


No, you had one, albeit for a short time. ;)



Yes that is true and it probably still would have been in the condition I bought it at the rate I restore signals.
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Re: "Chicago" - "Mini ESSCO?" used around Parks? PICS ADDED

Postby techtiques on Thu Jul 25, 2013 2:14 am

I actually found a picture of the kind of Chicago Parks ESSCO signal that I was looking for information about:

Image Information:
Title Traffic Intersection at Central Blvd and Jackson Blvd (image 05)
Creator Chicago Park District Traffic Section
Subject Traffic Intersections
Date of Original June 3, 1937
Time Taken 10:45 AM
Geographic Location Central Avenue + Jackson Boulevard
Latitude 41.876508
Longitude -87.764714
Direction 0
Type Image
Form Photographs
Physical Description Film Negatives
Format Digital image/jpeg
Source Illinois Department of Transportation Chicago Traffic photographs
Collection IDOT Chicago Traffic Photographs (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Repository Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago Library
Host University of Illinois. Library.
Rights This image may be used freely, with attribution, for research, study and educational purposes. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago Library, 801 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607. Phone: (312) 996-2742; email: lib-permissions@uic.edu.
Citation [identifier], Illinois Department of Transportation Chicago Traffic photographs, Department of Special Collections, The University Library, The University of Illinois at Chicago
Identifier IDOT_2f_65_5705_37

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Picture of signal --
http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/c ... x=57&y=110

Wider angle picture of intersection, that's under construction - with signal in foreground --
http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/c ... DMROTATE=0

Closeup of area in the back of the same picture of this this intersection, that's under construction -- with view of Chicago Parks ESSCO signal actually being installed -- and truck full of them ready to be installed - WOW! -- :hello:
http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/c ... &x=94&y=47

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Re: "Chicago" - "Mini ESSCO?" used around Parks? PICS ADDED

Postby 64ragtop on Thu Jul 25, 2013 7:59 pm

Here's another one... :hello:

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Postby 3liteguy on Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:13 pm

This should be a real mind blower!

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Re: "Chicago" - "Mini ESSCO?" used around Parks? PICS ADDED

Postby Fred on Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:53 pm

3liteguy wrote:This should be a real mind blower!

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Holy Bageebees :drool: :drool: :drool:
Damn ....someone build a time machine. :beg:
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Re: "Chicago" - "Mini ESSCO?" used around Parks? PICS ADDED

Postby electromatic1022 on Thu Jul 25, 2013 10:10 pm

Up Until WWII, The Chicago Park district absolutely did install and maintain all of the traffic signals on Chicago's boulevards (streets that run through, or on the perimeter of, parks) My good friend and Mentor about the early days of signaling in Chicago, Carmen Passarelli, who would have turned 105 this year, was a Lineman, and Member of IBEW local 9 for 40+ years, retiring in 1974. He was filled with stories of maintaining those old Esscos, and was sad when the traffic signal operations were taken over by the Bureau of Streets and Sanitation in 1948, (if I remember correctly) He chose to stay on with the Park district after the split, and continued to install and maintain the lighting in Chicago's Parks until his retirement.
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Re: "Chicago" - "Mini ESSCO?" used around Parks? PICS ADDED

Postby LarryC39 on Sat Jul 27, 2013 12:42 pm

Thumbscrew sketch
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And door latch sketch
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Re: "Chicago" - "Mini ESSCO?" used around Parks? PICS ADDED

Postby techtiques on Sat Jul 27, 2013 1:57 pm

Great Drawings. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you
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