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1 Puddle Dock in the City of London is a 1970s concrete office block by Blackfriars Station. Its interior has recently been refurbished.
Seen from 9th Street in East St. Louis, IL, Savatrans LLC (SVTX) ES44AC #1982 leads NS train 430 past closed Pennsy "VI" Tower, known in later years on Conrail, and while being operated by the Gateway Eastern, i.e. KCS, as Willows Tower.
The 430 completed loading the day prior at the "Shay" mine near Macoupin, IL and is on its way down the V&C Belt. It will connect with the NS Southern-West District at the west end of Coapman siding. From there, it will take NS to a connection with the Evansville Western (EVWR) just east of Mt Vernon, then down to the AB Brown power plant near Evansville, IN.
This power set, consisting of SVTX 1982, 1986 and 1912, painted and numbered to commemorate Penn State's football championships, made only two runs on NS before returning to its traditional route on EVWR.
The large interlocking that protected the crossing between Conrail and Grand Trunk in South Bend, Indiana was controlled from a 304-lever GRS Model 5 electric interlocking machine installed during the late Thirties. The plant was once known as "HF", but during Conrail years became known as "Bend."
This was one of the last large power machines installed, and this period was a swan song for the era of power interlocking machines. Even as this massive machine was being put together, the signal companies were devising more compact all-relay interlocking machines, along with the "entrance-exit" flavor of machine that simplified route setting into the act of pushing two buttons, with the circuitry doing the rest.
BNSF's V-BLUCLO1-04 heads west under the searchlight signals at Edelstein on the former Santa Fe. CREX ES44AC 1330 leads
Elmont is a rather peculiar station, being built (during the pandemic, mind you) smack-dab in the middle of QUEENS interlocking. I'm not complaining - the sightlines speak for themselves! Here's a peek at the regular hustle and bustle of rush hour at this unique location.
As forseen a while ago now a reedit with the fitting studs of the medium brick.
OH, how much I love these new tiles, a long overdue finishing part.
CSXT West Springfield to Selkirk manifest train M425 is sliding into view coming down the 1.3% grade into town on Main 1. They will pull up to the interlocking and hold while the Housatonic crew performs their work and presumably to wait for eastbound counterpart M424 which was already by Post Road Junction. This is the classic view toward 1791 ft Day Mountain in Dalton was taken from the Junction Road overpass at CP147 on modern day CSXT’s Berkshire Subdivision, the one time Boston and Albany Railroad mainline.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Sunday, July 14, 2024
I rebuilt YO tower to include a train order semaphore in addition to its mechanical interlocking machine. It is equipped to operate both mechanical semaphores and electric signals at a 1x2 track diamond crossing. Previous incarnations were too complex to travel easily. This re-design aims to build a simple and transportable moc that will showcase the lego interlocking machine and mechanical semaphore signals
The former railroad interlocking tower in Union City, Indiana, rolls down West Pearl Street on dollies to its new home in a city park. The community raised more than $56,000 to match a state grant of $50,000t to pay the expense of moving the two-story brick structure about a block west of its original location. CSX has threatened to raze the tower if the community failed to pay to move it.
this is the first of two interlockings I am building to fit with the OhioLug layouts. This one is built so it can be packed up and set up tabletop with minimal hassle. Power for the signals is centralized in the cabinet next to the far right signal.
Southbound CSO-1 on the Cedar Hill yard lead at Cedar Interlocking in North Haven. Once the train arrives in the yard it will interchange with CSX local B747.
An eastbound B&O manifest runs parallel to Amtrak's Northeast Corridor at F Interlocking in Washington, DC.
Westbound stack train I1T makes for a nice surprise as it passes thru the tree canyon at Iles Interlocker.
NS 6797
NS 8813
Workers from Wolfe House & Building Movers go about their duties in Union City, Indiana, at the new site for the town's railroad interlocking tower. The tower was moved about a block west of its original site to a location in a city park known as Artisan Crossing. Closed in 1968, the tower once guarded the crossing of New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroad lines.
A Shore Line East train crawls west across the Branford Interlocking and through the eastbound signals as it prepares to make a station stop at Branford Shore Line East station.