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Bray Head signal tower, Co. Kerry, with the Skellig Islands peering through the haze in the background.
"Bray Tower is a signal tower located on Valentia Island in County Kerry, Ireland. The tower was built in 1805 by the British Board of Ordnance during the Napoleonic Wars. It was one of 81 signal towers built between 1804 and 1806 along the Irish coast to communicate naval activity in response to a possible French invasion. The tower was abandoned sometime during the mid-1810s."
Class 66 No.66004 "Climate Hero" with the 4M82 08:11 Felixstowe North to East Midlands Gateway passes what is reckoned to be the UK's rarest signal at Ketton, the down section signal between Stamford and Oakham on the Peterborough - Leicester line. This Midland Railway wooden-posted lower quadrant signal almost certainly dates back to the opening of Ketton signal box in 1900.
Ok... It's not really called Signal Rocks - but it is the only place you can get a phone signal !!
Glenelg. Scotland.
Nordsee
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- www.kevin-palmer.com - I couldn't quite make it to the top of Signal Mountain in time for sunset. The snow started off firm but then it became soft and I was postholing 3 feet with every step. This was the best view I could manage.
Processed in GIMP 2.8.1.4
Out along the tracks. letting the engineer know what's coming. Hoping for an "all clear".
A small signal light sits along the active rail lines headed through Thurmond WV. I'm not sure what this type of signal is called.....the one in the foreground......nor what it would be for. If someone knows, I'd love to learn more about it. I just noticed that it was lit up and snagged a picture as we were readying to leave towards our next destination.
Ivatt 2MT 46512 steams away from Boat of Garten station on the Strathspey Railway during an "In Search of Steam" photo charter.
Locomotive: Ivatt 2MT 2-6-0 46512.
Location: Boat of Garten, Badenoch and Strathspey, Highland Region, Scotland.
Westbound Norfolk Southern manifest 13Q splits the matched pair of bracket mast former NYC signals at CD 309 on the NS Chicago Line outside Swanton, OH on the evening of August 4, 2016. These signals are the last of their kind in the state of Ohio and are living on borrowed time.
1932 Studebaker President St. Regis Brougham turn signal, at the Studebaker National Museum in South Bend, Indiana
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CP H25 has a freshly repainted 3024 in the lead as they move south through a set of block signals after lifting tie gondolas from the west service track at Emery. Normally the Lambton power is only seen up in these parts in the dead of night, so it was nice to grab a shot of a geep at these classic signals.
It's a fine September afternoon on the CSX's Altenheim Subdivision in Chicago, as we approach signal 59-E which is displaying an approach indication for our eastbound ore train.
We will be looking for a stop indication up and around the tight curve at Roosevelt Road.
WC Ore Loads for CSX
CSX 308
CSX 312
BN 7117
BN 3130
CSX Altenheim Sub
Chicago, IL.
September 1999
A sight that will (possibly) soon become history in Henrietta, a westbound NS intermodal train passes between the two sets of signals near the abandoned Lexington Road Bridge. A new set of vaders wait patiently across the right-of-way from the old color light signals that once replaced the Wabash searchlights. The vaders were erected a couple of years ago, so the time the color lights fall could be anyone's guess.
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NS Kansas City District
Henrietta, Missouri, USA
November 15, 2025
Canon EOS 77D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM
It's a dead silent spring night in the community of Lithia, Virginia above Roanoke. The hum of the electronics for the interlocking here and the sound of a distant horn are all that can be heard as the signal is lit clear for northbound 16T.
- Camera : Praktica Nova IB
- Lens : Meyer-Optik Görlitz Primotar E 3.5/50mm
- Film : Fomapan 400
- Exposure : f 6.5 or 8.0, march, 2019
blagged night photographer and graham to stop at this location and ended up staying for a good few hours
This flagpole was once used in the old harbour to signal which were incoming and which were outgoing ships. It later was used as a meteorological station and moved to this location after it had no further use. It now marks the location of Pong Patchamit Fort
I have uploaded this picture just to explore the interesting situation outlined in an earlier upload on my site.
37250+37087 begin to back 7M71, the steel “blooms” from Lackenby into the British Steel plant, Workington on 1 May 1984. It seems odd that this move is delaying the passage of the passenger train (there are passengers on board its not ecs) seen here held at Moss Bay Iron Works' outer down home signal.
The most likely explanation for this is a signalling fault explored in the image below
2024.006.GMO.07
GM&O 103A on passenger train #3 at Taylor Street in Chicago in July of 1968. Ed Derouin image.
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I am glad that I was able to take three colors or more at the same time.
By the way, the world's first signal seemed to be installed in the London city in 1868, but seems to have exploded immediately.
On June 14, 2013 in Minamitanaka, Nerima ward.
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3色以上を同時に撮れて嬉しいです。
ところで、世界で最初の信号機は1868年にロンドン市内に設置されたそうですが、すぐに爆発してしまったそうです。
2013年6月14日、練馬区南田中にて。
Vautour moine - Aegypius monachus - Cinereous Vulture
(Français + english versions)
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Rémuzat / Septembre 2025
Je m'aventure sur un terrain que je ne maîtrise pas, en tentant une petite approche du thème du baguage et du balisage GPS des vautours :
Ici, on peut apercevoir une balise GPS accrochée sur le dos de ce vautour. Elle permet le suivi d'individus afin d’évaluer l’état général des populations, les déplacements, certains comportements, dans le cadre de plans de conservation des espèces.
Ce vautour moine est également bagué au niveau des pattes, avec un code couleur et un code alphanumérique : www.flickr.com/photos/tostaky2/54794539706/
Il y a beaucoup à comprendre sur ces méthodes. C’est un sujet que j’ai découvert cette année lors d’une formation en ligne et qui m’a surprise, car je n’en comprenais pas l’utilité au départ.
En réalité, cela s’inscrit dans une démarche de protection des espèces et s’avère crucial, notamment pour appuyer les demandes auprès des responsables politiques qui, n’étant pas sur le terrain, attendent des données chiffrées.
Ces dispositifs ont également permis le sauvetage de vautours (« Œil-Rouge », le Gypaète, a été sauvé 2 fois, si ma mémoire de lecture est bonne, grâce à son signal GPS, qui a permis de le retrouver alors qu'il était en grande difficulté).
Cela permet aussi une coopération entre groupes de travail et bénévoles, que ce soit au niveau national ou international, car les oiseaux n'ont que faire de nos frontières administratives.
En cas de décès, l'oiseau peut parfois être retrouvé grâce au gps et ainsi il est envisageable de déterminer les causes de la mort : braconnage, collision, prédation, maladie... Ainsi on peut tenter de réfléchir à la mise en place d’actions complémentaires.
L'Humain doit intervenir pour protéger des espèces que sa propre espèce contribue à faire disparaître. C'est magnifiquement tragique.
Mais depuis que j'ai compris l'intérêt des bagues (mettre des bagues sur les pattes des oiseaux pour espérer les identifier ultérieurement) et des balises GPS, ainsi que des suivis, je suis totalement en phase avec cela, même si, bien sûr, il serait préférable que la biodiversité ne soit pas en déclin et que ces actions ne soient pas nécessaires.
Pour ma part, la cause animale est centrale depuis mon plus jeune âge, et je contribue bénévolement de plus en plus à des actions de suivi et de protection.
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Rémuzat / September 2025
I am venturing into unfamiliar territory by attempting a brief overview of the topic of vulture tagging and GPS tracking :
Here, you can see a GPS tag attached to the back of this vulture. It allows individuals to be tracked in order to assess the general health of populations, their movements, and certain behaviors, as part of species conservation plans.
This black vulture is also "banded" on its legs, with a color code and an alphanumeric code : www.flickr.com/photos/tostaky2/54794539706/
There is a lot to understand about these methods. It's a subject I discovered this year during an online training course, and it surprised me because I didn't understand its usefulness at first.
In reality, it's part of a species protection approach and is crucial, particularly in supporting requests to politicians who, not being in the field, expect hard data.
These devices have also enabled the rescue of vultures ("Oeil-Rouge” the bearded vulture was rescued twice, if my memory serves me correctly, thanks to its GPS signal, which enabled it to be found when it was in great difficulty).
This also enables cooperation between working groups and volunteers, whether at the national or international level, because birds are not concerned with our administrative borders.
In the event of death, the bird can sometimes be located using GPS, making it possible to determine the cause of death: poaching, collision, predation, disease, etc. This allows us to consider implementing additional measures.
Humans must intervene to protect species that their own species is helping to drive to extinction. It is magnificently tragic.
But since I understood the importance of rings (putting rings on birds' legs in the hope of identifying them later) and GPS tags, as well as tracking, I am totally on board with this, even though, of course, it would be preferable if biodiversity were not in decline and these actions were not necessary.
For my part, animal welfare has been a central cause for me since I was very young, and I am increasingly volunteering my time to tracking and protection initiatives.
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
Lane signals on the Ben Franklin Bridge - Kodak Portra 160 - Canon EOS Rebel G - Camden, NJ - scanned on Epson V600.