Can anyone identify the object in the lower left hand corner of this photo? I am guessing an old fire hydrant but dont know anything about such things.

A headless women? Maybe a mannequin.
Guess I have women on my mind.

That may be an early cast iron mail drop box, or a police call box.   I see its mounted on a concrete pad, and the police call boxes were always mounted securely.  FYI a police call box was a telephone in a locked steel box, just for police to call in to the station, when on patrol.

thats the guy who rings the bell when the crossing gates go down ,He just could not get his head on straight this morning   bob w.

Call box.
There's a web site for them, but I've lost the url.