Heavily oxidized **General Electric 'Control'-branded roller-lever travel limit switch** mounted on the riveted steel structural frame of the same smaller second lift at the Hoffmann-Hayman factory — the smaller mechanism (distinct from the main interior freight elevator) fitted with the **exterior access door** opening to the **track side** of the building onto the Southern Pacific siding — photographed on 5 January 2025; a small black-painted cast-metal enclosure carries a brass cover plate embossed in raised lettering with 'GENERAL ELECTRIC' across the top in a banner, a circular red-and-white **GE monogram badge** at center, and 'Control' in flowing italic script below the monogram (the standard pre-1960s GE 'Control' nameplate styling); the cover is held on by four slotted machine screws (one at each corner) with two further visible screws on the body, and out of the top of the case projects a steel **roller-lever actuator arm** pivoting on a hex-cap screw with a brass actuating roller at its outer end (positioned to be physically tripped by an end-of-travel cam or lug on the moving lift platform when the lift reaches the top or bottom of its travel, breaking the contacts inside the case and cutting power to the lift motor — a standard travel/end-of-travel limit switch); the bottom of the case is fitted with a threaded conduit hub feeding a length of **white/grey-jacketed flexible BX-style armored power cable** that loops down past additional wire mesh visible at lower-right, and the whole assembly is bolted to a heavy structural steel angle/channel post that's part of the lift's frame, with weathered tongue-and-groove vertical wood siding visible through the gap on the right of the frame and bright sunlight breaking through behind — most likely from the **trackside exterior access door** itself standing open at the moment of the photograph
