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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.
Westbound NS loaded coal train 740 passes through the interlocking at CP 102 on the Cleveland Line in Macedonia, OH with the Lehigh Valley heritage locomotive on the point.
At BN Interlocking on the KCT, WAMX GP35R No. 3855, orignally built for the SP, has just pulled an empty centerbeam out of Holmes Drywall, and is preparing to spot a loaded centerbeam as a KCS grain train bound for Atchison, KS via the UP rolls overhead on Track 74 on the KCT High Line. 11/5/16.
A southbound A&S train (302 maybe) bangs the old Pennsy/Conrail and B&O mains at HN Cabin (all three now CSX properties) in Washington Park, IL, with A&S heritage SD62 #2204 in the lead.
HN stood for "Hanover", the name of this small town adjacent to East St. Louis, until anti-German sentiment during WWII led to a name change. CSX closed the tower in 2014 and amazingly, it has not succumb to destruction by backhoe or vagrant-induced fire. Will it last the year...?
Although I was aware this train was working in the two northernmost blocks of the A&S, and listening in for additional blocks south, I nearly missed this move. Credit goes to WR who happened to hear the final piece of the warrant, wherein I promptly relocated from another more boring location. Super-duper tele-smash courtesy of a 500mm lens plus very close cropping.
DT&I’s runthrough freight DC-9 makes its way south toward Cincy through Dayton, OH on the PRR. A B&O transfer/local can be seen rolling through Wayne Ave interlocking as well. A cool Kool sign in the foreground. With a little bit of fog or haze in the air tells of a summer morning. 7/18/1975. No info on original photographer. CWC Slide Collection.
Coming into Greenville on the Low Line and crossing the NS Meadville Line that was once the Erie-Lackawanna main line.
CN L536 starts through Kensington interlocking on Chicago's far south side with a matching pair of IC SD70s after waiting for the northbound Saluki to cross over in front of it. Kensington Tower and the clock tower of the Pullman administration building can be seen in the distance on the right, both being more and more obscured by trees and vegetation as the years go by.
CN U788 heads north through McNugget outside of Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota behind one of only two active Dash 8 trios at the time. Just around the corner is Wyman where the Hinsdale Branch splits off to head north towards the former Erie Mining plant and mine. The branch was part of the original D&IR mainline between Two Harbors and the Vermillion Range where high-grade iron ore was mined. The last mine on the Vermillion Range shut down in 1967 as the mining industry completed its transition to taconite.
A Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range SD18 switches Dock 6 late in the afternoon of October 20, 1985, framed by Dock 5 and a boarded up Jenswold Street Tower at Duluth, Minnesota. Thanks to Dave Schauer for clueing me in on the name of the tower.
Bone Valley local O730 heads south over the diamond in Mulberry, FL crossing the former SAL Valrico Subdivision. The train originated in Winston and is currently running on the Bone Valley subdivision.
Featured at this interlocking are what should be some of the last Y-Patterns in service in Florida. The only others that I can think of are in Live Oak, FL on the former CSX Tallahassee Subdivision which is now under control of the Florida Gulf and Atlantic railroad.
MARC P242 was pushing through Carroll interlocking behind MARC 83/81 on a sunny morning in Charm City.
Shooting a manual Nikon on K64, I had the exposure set and the focus perfect. What I forgot about was to compensate for the harsh sunlight bouncing back off of the shiny F-unit.
The rolling hills of North East Scottish farming land. Mains of Slains near Collieston, Aberdeenshire.
a7riv + Sony FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS
Primary school 'De Combinatie', Vlissingen
2011, Marlies Rohmer Architecture & Urbanism
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Three CSX GE's bring intermodal train Q028 through Howell Interlocking crossing the Norfolk Southern's Piedmont Division beginning its journey from Atlanta to Chicago.
The Giant's Causeway (Irish: Clochán an Aifir) is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption. It is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles (4.8 km) northeast of the town of Bushmills.
It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986 and a national nature reserve by the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland in 1987. In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, the Giant's Causeway was named the fourth-greatest natural wonder in the United Kingdom.
The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea. Most of the columns are hexagonal, although some have four, five, seven, or eight sides. The tallest are about 12 metres (39 ft) high, and the solidified lava in the cliffs is 28 metres (92 ft) thick in places.
Much of the Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast World Heritage Site is owned and managed by the National Trust. It is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Northern Ireland, receiving over 998,000 visitors in 2019. Access to the Giant's Causeway is free of charge: it is not necessary to go via the visitor centre, which charges a fee. The remainder of the site is owned by the Crown Estate and several private landowners. Wikipedia
Somewhere in Dublin, a long time ago !
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CSX Q237 is southbound at Cordele, Georgia on the Fitzgerald Subdivision crossing Norfolk Southern's GS&F District and the Heart of Georgia Railroad in November of 2003. (Slide Scan)
Union Pacific manifest train MSSNP (South St. Paul, Minn., to North Platte, Neb.) is kicking up fresh powder as it slams the diamond with CP's Jackson Subdivision at Albert Lea, Minn., as the last hour of February sun for the day lights up the scene. CP local B48, today appearing as a light power move with an SD60M and an SD40-2, patiently waits its turn behind the dilapidated but still-standing interlocking tower.
This junction would historically have been between the Rock Island (now UP) and the Milwaukee Road (now CP). Swap glass for the boarded-up windows and change out the motive power and paint schemes and it would have looked very much the same a half-century ago.
SOO U30C 806 pulls a southbound freight at
Deval, Des Plaines, Ill., July 28, 1972.
Jim Lewnard photo.
Frame #7207.117
BNSF Transfer job Y-BIR103 is seen departing NS's North Yard in Birmingham, AL., on their way back to BNSF's East Thomas Yard north of town.
NS 5340 departs Elkhart Yard eastbound with a manifest, back before the interlocking was changed completely.
Eastbound CSX train Q372 sports a pair of UP locos (including an SD70AH, aka ACe-T4, in trail), an all-too-common occurrence on the St. Louis Subdivision, seen here passing ex-PRR "V" Tower at Vandalia, IL.
The tower has been headquarters for the Vandalia Railroad (VRRC) since 1983. Ironically, the original Vandalia railroad was incorporated in 1905, the result of a merger of several lines in Indiana and Illinois. In 1917, the PRR-controlled Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway was merged into the Vandalia Railroad to form the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, giving the Pennsy a direct route from New York to St. Louis. Today, there are rumors CSX wants to rid itself of this line.
The bulbs of a classic B&O CPL pierce through the darkness as they beckon Walbridge bound M506 through the interlocking at South Deshler.
A westbound piggyback train glides through MO interlocking at Cresson, PA while a set of helpers hold at the eastbound signal. The flyover bridge at MO is long since history, but the traffic at Cresson, PA and the amount of helper moves hasn't changed too much over the years.
CR 6666. Cresson, PA.
June 22, 1985. Photographer unknown.
Adam Klimchock collection.
Rebuilt AC4400CWM CP 8027 pops off the Mississippi River lift bridge eastbound at MP 391.1 on the River Subdivision leading CPKC train 260 (St Paul to Deramus Yard in Shreveport, LA). They are approaching the 2nd Street crossing and about to pass the Milwaukee Road era searchlights still guarding the interlocking at the start of double track. This area is rife with relics from railroading's past that make great props including an 1893 built depot just out of sight to the left that is still in use by CPKC as an office.
The bridge here is rather fascinating to me given that it was probably one of the last major capital projects completed by the Milwaukee. This is actually the fourth one on this site and it was built in 1981 replacing a circa 1910 swing bridge. The bridge is 1755 ft in total length including a long curved deck girder trestle on the east side and a Warren truss span that date from the 1910 rebuilding while the towers, 325 lift span, and approaches are all from the 1981 reconstruction. The fact that the trustees of the bankrupt (since 1977) Milwaukee Road were convinced to approve such a major project while simultaneously in the process of liquidating over two thirds of the railroad's trackage serves as a testament to how important this route was seen to the company.
Historically the first rails here date to the Minnesota and Pacific Railroad which completed a line between Minneapolis and Minnesota City in 1870. A year later the road was purchased by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad and remained a core mainline of the 'Milwaukee Road' for the entirety of its existence. In 1986 it became the property of the Soo Line, itself a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific and in 2023 it is now a key link in the new CPKC's Canada to Mexico network. With traffic only forecasted to grow as a result of the merger, the decision to invest in this bridge forty years ago seems rather prescient.
Hastings, Minnesota
Saturday May 6, 2023
CSX train Q634-29 with an SD40-2 & SD40-3 passes through Berea Interlocking and past the NYC (Big Four) station which is now a restaurant and sports bar.
Valadier Temple inside the Genga Cave – Marche, Italy
Set into the rock, suspended between light and silence, the Tempietto del Valadier reveals itself like a thought carved into the mountain.
Designed in the 19th century by architect Giuseppe Valadier, this neoclassical temple stands in the village of Genga, in the Marche region, inside a limestone cave that overlooks the Gola della Rossa e di Frasassi Natural Park.
Nearby, still intact, the small medieval church of Santa Maria Infra Saxa suggests that stone here has long guarded centuries of solitude and retreat.
Legend tells of pilgrims once arriving beneath this hidden dome,
seeking forgiveness.
A refuge of stone, built to welcome silence.
Still today, one arrives only on foot, as if slowly approaching the essential.
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Incastro
Tempietto del Valadier nella grotta di Genga – Marche
Incastonato nella roccia, sospeso tra luce e silenzio, il Tempietto del Valadier si rivela come un pensiero scolpito nella montagna.
Progettato nel XIX secolo dall’architetto Giuseppe Valadier, questo tempio neoclassico sorge nel comune di Genga, nelle Marche, all’interno di una grotta calcarea che domina il Parco della Gola della Rossa e di Frasassi.
Accanto, ancora intatta, la minuscola chiesa medievale di Santa Maria Infra Saxa suggerisce che qui la pietra custodisce secoli di raccoglimento.
Si racconta che qui, sotto questa cupola nascosta, giungessero pellegrini in cerca di perdono.
Un rifugio di pietra, nato per accogliere il silenzio.
Ancora oggi si arriva solo a piedi, come in un lento avvicinamento all’essenziale.