RCF_0037-DeNoiseAI-low-light
Not long after daybreak at Junction City, Kentucky on November 19, 2011, the southward signals at the double crossover display “all red.” The crossing of the L&N’s Lebanon Branch (from which the community got its name) had been removed years earlier when the middle section of the “LB” was abandoned. For the moment, this spot on the CNO&TP is quiet, but as the day moves along, freight tonnage into the hundreds of thousands will clatter over the switch points and frogs of the four turnouts. This route seldom sleeps very long.
The signals dictating train movements on this morning were still General Railway Signal Company’s model “SC” searchlight models that replaced the much older semaphores from the steam era. The always frugal and innovative Southern built the signal bridges from repurposed freight car center sills. The slots through which the fulcrums and other appurtenances of the brake rigging system passed were still obvious.
Alas, these classic signals were not compatible with the coming of positive train control, so in 2010, the slow process of replacing them with “modern” tri-light signals began. They’re all gone today.
RCF_0037-DeNoiseAI-low-light
Not long after daybreak at Junction City, Kentucky on November 19, 2011, the southward signals at the double crossover display “all red.” The crossing of the L&N’s Lebanon Branch (from which the community got its name) had been removed years earlier when the middle section of the “LB” was abandoned. For the moment, this spot on the CNO&TP is quiet, but as the day moves along, freight tonnage into the hundreds of thousands will clatter over the switch points and frogs of the four turnouts. This route seldom sleeps very long.
The signals dictating train movements on this morning were still General Railway Signal Company’s model “SC” searchlight models that replaced the much older semaphores from the steam era. The always frugal and innovative Southern built the signal bridges from repurposed freight car center sills. The slots through which the fulcrums and other appurtenances of the brake rigging system passed were still obvious.
Alas, these classic signals were not compatible with the coming of positive train control, so in 2010, the slow process of replacing them with “modern” tri-light signals began. They’re all gone today.