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CP 8823 and BNSF 9305 pass under the signal bridge below the stately Dayton's Bluff. After a week of cloudy weather, it was nice to grab anything moving around and get some bright colors. Hard to know if this train is CPKC or BNSF, but I was just happy to see anything really, especially with good timing and a clear Warner Road.
This is the rolling Exmoor early evening landscape as a quick stop off on the way to my main evening shoot location. Just off the A39 near Countisbury, N. Devon, UK.
f/11, 70 mm, 1/80 at ISO 200.
What's left of the once wildly busy CP Town Interlocking in Hagerstown, Maryland watches Northbound 12R pass. In it's peak, this Interlocking tower could see 150 trains a day, while now, the number is around 25. The interlocking is still in place, and actively used, but the towers purpose is long gone.
This is the site of Ski Villa Carbon Canyon, the first and only year round ski resort in the United States. Ski Villa Carbon Canyon opened in 1966 and used interlocking plastic mats instead of snow. The mats were a bit like Astroturf that you could ski on and the skiers would slide the skis across pads of silicone before going down to help with the friction.
UP's Katy heritage unit 1988, a bit dirty, comes eastbound through HM interlocking in Elmhurst IL. with an ethanol train. That second ACE looks great!
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.
After chasing this train down from Pilot on the Port Road to the signature curve in Aberdeen we had one more spot in mind. The corridor isn't easy to chase so we had to choose and decided to head south 19 miles and set up here at the nondescript low level platform MARC Martin Airport commuter rail station.
Norfolk Southern train 590 is on a four main stretch of track seen here at MP 84 (note the old PRR milepost to the left of the cat pole) on Amtrak Northeast Corridor Main 1 holding to the 30 mph daylight freight restriction per Amtrak system special instruction 35-S1. The wooden boardwalks are what serve as the commuter rail boarding platform at this extremely low budget affair of a station!
Leading the way is NS 9571 that rolled off GE's erecting floor at Erie in Dec. 2000 as a C40-9W and at more than two decades old can almost be considered a classic in her own right (I know that's scary because I was still working for NS when she was delivered so that doesn't just date her!) The big coal train bound for the Consol export terminal on Baltimore harbor is only five miles from the end of its run under the wire where it will peel off the NEC at River interlocking into NS' Bayview Yard.
Middle River, Maryland
Friday April 2, 2021
Detail of the metallic circles on the elevation of the new Birmingham Library, England.
Architects: Mecanoo
Comet Neowise hangs in the northern sky a bit after sunset against the C&NW-era signal bridge at the NQ interlocking. The Union Pacific has plans to replace this signal bridge and these signals, so their time is winding down.
CP Transfer G41's UP SD40N's thread their way through the interlocking in Franklin Park as they head for the IHB.
Chicago,IL - Atlanta,GA stack train Q029 snakes its way through Howell Interlocking and under the newly cut in vader signal bridge. The train is making track speed of 25mph and closing in on its destination of Hulsey Yard just east of downtown.
New England Central GP38 leads Connecticut Southern train CSO-1 north at Cedar Interlocking in North Haven.
As a photographer, I'm really not a fan of shooting back-lit shots but I do like how this turned out. I couldn't just sit in my car watching as the classic blue & gold New England Central geep passed by. I still had to capture something in my camera. I feel the black and white plus curved track elevation, signal and shadows made it all come together.
a geological formation.
An interlocking spur, also known as an overlapping spur, is one of any number of projecting ridges that extend alternately from the opposite sides of the wall of a young, V-shaped valley down which a river with a winding course flows. Each of these spurs extends laterally into a concave bend of the river such that when viewed either upstream or from overhead, the projecting ridges, which are called spurs, appear to "interlock" or "overlap" in a staggered formation like the teeth of a zipper.[1]
While similar in general appearance, the mechanism behind the formation of interlocking spurs is different from that behind meanders, which arise out of a combination of lateral erosion and deposition. Interlocking spurs are formed as either a river or stream cuts its valley into local bedrock. As it entrenches its valley, it preferentially follows and erodes zones of weaknesses within the bedrock that typically consist of intersecting sets of joints. This process creates a zig-zagging fluvial valley that "interlock" or "overlap" in a staggered manner.
Now Caffe Nero:
The Tudor Tavern at No 15 Fore Street, Taunton, Somerset, England designated as a Grade I listed building. Built in 1578, the house is three storeys high of a timber-frame construction, with jettied first and second floors. The frontage is of carved bressummers with interlocking curved braces, while the roof is red tiles. There is a medieval hall with an open trussed roof behind the front.
Even this mirror is over 100 years old.
And - this customer looks "past his sell by date".
The day that started out foggy turned out to be pretty sunny by the time we made it to Washago. This is where the CNR's Bala Subdivision, Toronto to the West, crossed the Newmarket Sub from Toronto to North Bay and its connection to the Montreal-to-the-West mainline as well as the Ontario Northland to the north. The Bala was the former Canadian Northern and the Newmarket was the former Grand Trunk; they took opposite sides of Lake Simcoe north of Toronto and crossed here, north of the lake, to pursue their destinations to the north (Newmarket, ex-GT) or to the west (Bala, ex-CNoR.) Until 1921 the two railroads crossed each other at an interlocking tower; once the two railroads became one - Canadian National - the crossing was eliminated and other rearrangements of the two mainlines occurred as a result of highway changes to eliminate a bottleneck where the railroads lines were crossed. The Severn River crossing was also a factor in this re-arrangement. This is Train 220 (Winnipeg to Toronto) as it approaches the depot off of the Bala Subdivision. Mostly piggies, it has a "stock car in use" (my notes...I guess there were live ones in it?) first out behind the units. That wasn't an uncommon sight even well into the '80s out on the Canadian Prairies. The train had only 33 cars and van behind those three wide-cab GP40-2's, so I suspect it was pretty hot beef back there...and that is my friend's AMC "Gremlin" underneath the water tank. It seems to sneak into a lot of shots of mine!
CN 2099 and 2562 lead a rerouted Q19991-29 down the ramp from 16th Street Tower, about to duck under 18th St and negotiate 21st St Crossing. Due to total replacement of the interlocking at Homewood, for several days all traffic normally routed via the former EJ&E to the south end of Markham Yard via Matteson could only access the north end, resulting in reroutes through the city. Northbound traffic used the ex-IC Chicago and Freeport Subdivisions to Munger to access the "J", and southbounds used the Waukesha Sub to the IHB connection at B-12, then the Eldson Sub from Blue Island to the Markham connection at Harvey. Due to clearance issues on the IC route through Chicago, intermodal traffic is not normally routed this way, thus, the rerouted trains could not operate with doublestacked containers, as is the norm on their regular route.
This is one of Birmingham's finest architectural landmarks, The Cube. It's a very unusual design, looking like a complex interlocking puzzle that's been half finished. You can see both the exterior and the interior at the same time.
At the moment it houses Harvey Nichols, shops and a number of excellent restaurants. It's situated right next to the canal so makes for quite an interesting visit.
After I moved to the Twin Cities in 1984 one of my favorite places to spend some time was the area around St. Croix interlocking just across the river from Hastings, Minnesota. The Burlington Northern and Soo Line (former Milwaukee Road) shared track between St. Paul and St. Croix and traffic was heavy, consisting of both roads traffic east from the Twin Cities. I spent most of my time a mile or so east of where the photos in this series were taken, near the interlocking itself, but on this particular afternoon I hiked west to this location and got a variety of traffic. The BN owned track ran along the Mississippi River at this location. The Soo Line (ex MILW) track ran "on top" until it dropped down a curving, significant grade to St. Croix. That track can be seen in the distance in most of these photos. Back then, access was easy to all of these spots and nobody cared you were there as long as you were responsible. It is a much more difficult to access area now with increased development and increased RR security. I sure am glad I wandered back here that day. For whatever reason, I never got back but at least I have a few shots.
List of trains for those few hours:
SOO 402 (Superior - Bensenville) with 6032-6018 and 37 cars at 11:50
SOO 401 (Bensenville - Superior) with 6012-6059 and 119 cars at 12:20
SOO 223 (Kansas City - St. Paul) with 6062-6051-4451 and 86 cars at 12:55
BN 101 (Chicago - Pasco) with SOO762-SOO739 and 87 cars at 13:20
BN 47 (Chicago - St. Paul) with 2806-3048 and 85 platforms at 13:45
SOO 249 (Portage - St. Paul) with 4414-4511-1218-4436-2010-2008 (no count) at 15:10
BN 100 (Pasco - Chicago) with 7859-7831 and 42 cars at 15:15
SOO 248 (St. Paul - Portage) with 4452-2045-411-HL6386 and 83 cars at 15:40
SOO 287 (Weston - St. Paul) with BN8177-BN7255-BN7217 at 17:15 (WPSX mtys)
SOO 941 (Bensenville - Noyes) with 6047-6450-6024 and 58 cars at 17:35
NS loaded coal train 776 creeps up through Cove to the Crossing at the antique store to wait for a Q76 who was at the CP Banks interlocking, we had to relocate to shoot the incoming 592 who was going through Duncannon at the time of this photo.
NS Southbound Local Freight Train A21 ( Birmingham to Wilton, AL ) passes through 32nd Street Interlocking in Birmingham, AL
The CPKC Holiday Train crosses the Mississippi River out of Hastings, Minnesota preparing to jump on BNSF rails at St. Croix and follow H-NSINTW up to Cottage Grove. The bridge carrying Highway 61 in the foreground was completed in 2013 replacing the 1951 Hastings High Bridge after concerns about the structural integrity of the old bridge following the I-35W disaster.