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This view of southbound NS train 15E at Lenox Tower in Mitchell, IL gives a good perspective of the track layout and activity here as MoW crews work to close the tower for good.
To the far left, running behind the ex-C&A/GM&O CPL, is UP's Springfield Sub, which splits into two main tracks. Running to the right of that line is Vierling siding on the UP Pana Sub, with a connection behind the tower to the Alton and Southern, and both Springfield Sub mains. 15E is coming down the NS Brooklyn District. The Brooklyn and Springfield mains run parallel down to WR tower at Granite City.
The Neebing Interlocking in Thunder Bay, Ontario is a fascinating place to check out. Here, EJE 672 leads the CN Yard Job across a diamond on their way back to Neebing Yard with loaded centrebeams from Resolute.
View On Black. A group of trees which anyone who returns from Penyghent will recognise. After a day above the clouds, the mist returned, so the only thing left to do was to check out the Theakston's in the Crown.
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.
KCS BKCVN-24 runs south through Lenox Interlocking at Mitchell, IL after a 70-mph jaunt from Wann Interlocking on UP's Springfield Sub. The train will tie down in KCS Venice Yard while its privileged passengers enjoy another year of the Bommarito Automotive Group 500, an IndyCar Series race held at Gateway Motorsports Park in Madison, IL.
Note the work in the background to replace the legacy signals here, signalling the end of Lenox tower as a controlling agency at this busy confluence of St. Louis railroading.
Thanks to WR and MM for the heads up and periodic updates as this train crossed Missouri and Illinois.
Chicago & Eastern Illinois FP7A 1609 leading the Hummingbird and the Georgian on March 31, 1964 in Chicago, IL at C&WI 81st Street interlocking.
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.
For Station Saturday here's a look at the former New Haven Railroad Buzzards Bay station.
The classic depot below was built in 1912 replacing an earlier structure on the same site constructed by the Old Colony Railroad in 1872. Today it serves as a local chamber of commerce and stop for Cape Cod Central tourist trains and seasonal MassDOT/Keolis CapeFLYERs. Out of sight behind the locomotive is the 1911 vintage interlocking tower which is still manned to control the interlocking derails for the bridge and the Canal Jct. switch on the east side of the bridge. A Mass Coastal train dispatcher works out of the vintage structure.
Mass Coastal's ex CDOT FL9 #2026 is very much on home rails here having been built in Sept. 1957 as NH 2007. She is on the north end of the Cape Cod Central train that will go out later in the evening as the dinner train.
You may be wondering why the station is set so far back from the platform? No it was not moved and the depot remains in its as built location. For nearly six decades there were four tracks out front where the New Haven would combine or break apart trains destined to or from the Woods Hole branch or the mainline to Hyannis and the upper Cape. Additionally there was a wye that surrounded the station whose tail track led to a small freight yard located along the pre canal RofW. All of this was controlled by the electro-pneumatic interlocking machine located in the tower which also controlled the derails and signals for the drawbridge and the junction on the other side.
For another perspective take a look at this older photo for a cool view from 200 ft above looking down from the tower of the lift bridge:
Buzzards Bay
Wareham, Massachusetts
Friday September 1, 2023
Amtrak's Carolinian is led by their 160 as it passes through the interlocking at Slater's Lane, where NS used to deliver coal to a nearby power plant. The Capitol Dome from the DC side of the Potomac can be seen in the distance.
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.
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.
Here is something very different and I'll attribute it to serendipity. The long and short of it is that I borrowed a friend's living room to setup a 9 foot diorama featuring an Alco FA-1 engine and B Unit along with a few passenger cars.
The scene also included the Rail Road Interlock Tower, 3 buildings, 5 vehicles and various detail items, not to mention everything lit up by way of Nano LEDs, including the phone booth.
This was to be a "night shot" but it all went horribly wrong. [it ended in tears and bad words]
BUT! the next morning when I revisited the scene, the sun was shining on the black paper backdrop, causing it to go almost white, due to the glare.
It was an Ah-Ha moment.
What I didn't realize was the glare faded to black, with the occasional wrinkles in the paper giving the impression of smoke.
This would never have occurred to me as a technique, but the Universe gave me a nudge.
[Thank you Universe!]
So Big drama hits Elgin Park by way of a fire down by the river.
The Engine and B Unit is by Polk's Model Craft Hobbies, Inc. [G scale]
I got them on the cheap due to some missing pieces.
The banks of the river is provided by potting soil, complete with sticks and pebbles, at the correct scale, then misted with water to give it that muddy look.
I almost didn't post this photo for various reasons , but I figured there is something to be learned here and I wanted to share.
Here is the Rail Road Interlock Tower that was built a while ago:
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An eastbound from New York navigates the crossover at Babylon Interlocking, just moments from its final station stop.
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.