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18 Days On The Main Line: Day 14
Day 14: January 14th, 2017
Two weeks in and there's one theme that just hasn't stopped. Mother Nature is everything here. She makes your life possible, and frustrating at the same time. Norfolk Southern signal maintainers are not immune. The slide warning fence (SWF) that protects the cut at Cassandra can be fickle. The electronics are half a century old, and need constant attention. An ice fall last night from the internal thaw of the mountain created headaches for personnel this morning, who spent hours solving a problem with indications from the fence's 1950's electronics that they said "shouldn't even be possible".
18 Days On The Main Line is a project comprised of a single photograph per day while living for 18 days on the former PRR Main Line's West Slope between Gallitzin, Pennsylvania and Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Signal Maintainer and Slide Fence
Plane Bank Cut
Cassandra, Pennsylvania
Saturday, January 14th, 2017
©2017 Matthew James Ryan, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. This photo may not be republished, copied, printed or used in any way, on any medium and under any circumstances without written consent. This is my living, so violators will be prosecuted.
18 Days On The Main Line: Day 14
Day 14: January 14th, 2017
Two weeks in and there's one theme that just hasn't stopped. Mother Nature is everything here. She makes your life possible, and frustrating at the same time. Norfolk Southern signal maintainers are not immune. The slide warning fence (SWF) that protects the cut at Cassandra can be fickle. The electronics are half a century old, and need constant attention. An ice fall last night from the internal thaw of the mountain created headaches for personnel this morning, who spent hours solving a problem with indications from the fence's 1950's electronics that they said "shouldn't even be possible".
18 Days On The Main Line is a project comprised of a single photograph per day while living for 18 days on the former PRR Main Line's West Slope between Gallitzin, Pennsylvania and Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Signal Maintainer and Slide Fence
Plane Bank Cut
Cassandra, Pennsylvania
Saturday, January 14th, 2017
©2017 Matthew James Ryan, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. This photo may not be republished, copied, printed or used in any way, on any medium and under any circumstances without written consent. This is my living, so violators will be prosecuted.