The J&L Narrow Gauge Railroad in Youngstown is seeking volunteers who are interested in railway signaling to assist in the installation of a working signal system.
The work includes plans to install switch circuit controllers on the house track and eastern extension switches to operate signals directing movements over these tracks.
Thus far the railroad has completed installation of a searchlight dwarf signal for the house track.
It is now acquiring components for the main track signals and plans to install crossing gates at one of its road crossings.
The railroad said if there is sufficient interest it will schedule a J&LNG signaling weekend in the spring.
The J&LNG is a part of the Youngstown Steel Heritage Museum and is a 24-inch gauge demonstration railroad that shows the type of narrow gauge railroad operations used by the steel industry.
It features a 93,000 pound 0-4-0T built by HK Porter for the Pittsburgh Works.
Recently the museum has received from CSX three more pieces of rolling stock to add to its collection.
The boxcars will be used for storage while a ballast hopper will become a coal dock for the J&L 58.
Previously, CSX has now donated to the museum a caboose, a tank car for water storage, a hopper for coal storage and boxcars for general storage.
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