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[Question] Metal Sign on Railroad Says "790Hz"
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Definitely not an RF frequency, much, much too low.
Might be some wire based signalling for a railway switch or semaphore or so.
Perhaps ask in a train community?
RF happens at plenty of lower frequencies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_low_frequency