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Interlocking building as a concept of balanced interaction between wall and opening. This allows views into the environment and at the same time offers windowless wall surfaces as a place of retreat.
A pleasant spring afternoon finds original L&N SD40-2 no. 8014 leading M427 under the B&M-era searchlights at CPF 312 in Littleton, MA, formerly Willows East Interlocking. In a few months this will become the division point between CSX and Berkshire & Eastern ownership.
Train EDPL diverges from the Springfield Line onto the Waterbury Branch at Willow Interlocking in Berlin.
After running some errands I wasn't planning on doing anything else for the day, but a hot tip about a daylight EDPL made me muster up enough motivation to go out. Here we see EDPL blasting south by CPR-33 in Deerfield, MA with a pair of GP40's powering the 35 car train. CPR-33 is one of the last interlockings on the Conn River that still uses B&M searchlight signals (the other being the southern home signal at CPF 385). As I type this post, EDPL is currently tied down on the Controlled Siding at CPR-1 in Springfield, where it will be capped with a Cab Signal equipped leader for the rest of their journey overnight to Plainville.
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Shot for Macro Mondays "childhood memories" theme. Spirograph is a geometric drawing toy that produces mathematical curves of the variety technically known as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids. The name is a registered trademark of Hasbro, Inc.
CP H42 departs Pig's Eye in St Paul behind three matching SD30C-ECOs passing what appears to be a tied-down H15 at Hoffman with a GP20C-ECO leading.
The Madison RR crew with cars off the CSX backs through the east wye to get back onto their property. The new signals for an automatic interlocking for the diamond crossing will be in service in a few days replacing the hand operated tiltboard signal.
10 Grand Street (l) and 1 South 1st Street are joined at the shoulder. Just one of the radical pieces of Williamsburg, Brooklyn architecture.
This is the fourth photo in a series that I shot at Starved Rock State Park. In this scene, a couple sits on chairs while fishing at the bend of the Illinois River. I don't know about you, but I think I would have been just as content sitting there fishing instead of being behind the camera... :D
The heavy interlocking tiles covering the bank were put there to prevent soil erosion. The bridge in the distance is Highway 178.
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Once again, I find myself on the IC shooting the daily transfer from CN’s Glenn Yard to Kirk Yard. On a surprising sunny day this December, train L5369129 traverses its way south through one of Chicago’s most busiest and existential junctions of Kensington. An Illinois Central SD70 (1038) leads a couple of CN corporate painted units such as a GEVO, GP40R, and an SD38-2. Seen here in rare form taking main one under the wire while passing the Illinois Central interlocking tower nearing its 100th year guarding the junction for the Illinois Central, Chicago South Shore and South Bend, and now of course Canadian National and Metra. Taken: 12-29-22
Us locals and regulars that know the train well, know how hard it is for them to run main 1 here at Kensington, yes I’m sure it happens all the time when were not around but to be there when it does, opens for new shot opportunities such as this.
Ruins of Kumurdo Cathedral stand on the background of ill-favored and barren landscape of Javakheti plateau, in a distance of 12 km from Akhalkalaki. The extensive inscription curved on the stone slab that fortunately preserved up to now tells that the threshold of the cathedral was placed in May, 964 AD. According to that inscription the Bishop of Kumurdo John has initiated church construction. Name of an architect was Sacotsari. After reconsideration of the six-apse design five-apse configuration of the church was obtained, instead of being situated radial. Western rectangular arm of the church is three-nave, with internal narthex and three sided gallery arranged in its western end. External layout of the church is cross-shaped; in response to three-partite sanctuary two triangular niches are arranged on western façade, coupled with two others, one at each lateral façade. A porch-chapel is erected in front of the main entrance — the eastern one, with a tiny shrine arranged in the thickness of the load-bearing wall. Despite of the relative simplification of the design Sakotsari has managed to preserve all integral elements of the six-apse construction and provide sufficient dynamics through trapezoidal bemas running along the lateral apses and column-like protrusions that support sub-dome sagittal arches. All the aforementioned provides general elevation of the internal space and creates strong impression of motion and charge of life.
All elements of decoration – window headers and framings adorned with light, open-work-type fretwork, a complex, large frame of the sanctuary window, cornices decorated with different images are scattered over the vast surfaces of the building exterior, faced with most accurately hewn stones. Adornment is so perfect, clear and clean that they may be perceived as the embroidery instructed on the metal surfaces. Several risings still well noticeable on eastern sub-dome tromps include images of the church construction donors – Queen Gurandukht, her brother King Leon of Abkhazs and her spouse – King Gurgen of Georgians. All of those images coupled with those incorporated in the sanctuary window decoration are plain and tabular, while the heads or possibly the faces of archangels placed in the niches and over the southern porch, on the contrary, are rounded and volumetric. Motion is sensible even in symmetrical elements – inscription over the western façade is slanted northwards, interlocked tromp-like spaces are arranged on the corners of the church arm exteriors.
Even today, with missing dome and western arm the monument is perhaps as gorgeous and splendid as it was upon the completion of its construction. The temple has got several sections that were added to its body at later times the most important of which is southern porch constructed along the western arm. This attachment of the first of XI c was initiated by Queen Marry of Georgia.
All preserved fragments of wall painting, for instance within the sanctuary are relatively younger then the building itself. It seems, frescoes of the north-western apse were performed sometime in XIII c. Western porch of the cathedral bears footprints of XVI c refurbishment. Two X c steles are erected close to the temple.
Pan Am's weekend water trains have been providing some great photo opportunities on the western portion of District 2 since their start late last year, and luckily it doesn't involve a lot of travel for me. Here, WAAY is seen shunting Graniteville Interlocking (CPF-309) at Westford, MA as it heads west on the former Stony Brook Branch with a trio of second generation EMD's. Graniteville is one of several interlocking plants in the area that have been essentially untouched since the B&M days, while others on the railroad have received new signals or been removed or rebuilt completely in recent years.
After receiving a clear signal to proceed over CPKC’s Lacombe Subdivision, Canadian National EMD SD75IACC 8327 (originally SD75I 5697) eases train X188 through the interlocking at Alix, Alberta, on its southbound journey along the Three Hills Subdivision, en route to the line’s terminus at Calgary Logistics Park.
A view of the interlocking at SA Tower in Upper Sandusky, Ohio taken in June of 1981 looking west. The eastward siding is in, eastbound TV-2 is about to knock the signal down, #2 main is still in service and while the westbound siding is still in, it's only used as a tail track for the interchange track to the C&O seen in the right foreground. What stands out to me is the pole line on the right. Just amazing! Photo by Dale A. DeVene Jr.