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Former NBR High Street Goods signal box. Opened in 1904 and closed in 1967. Survived until the early 2000s despite the yard closing in 1982.
Surviving GSWR built Bell St goods bonded warehouse of College St goods in background. Apparently the premises were used by Scotch whisky blenders. Building now converted to flats.
Late Feb 1985
Having a desire to snag a dramatic night photo of the searchlight signals in Old Monroe, Mo. was always on my to-do-list.
On this night, it worked out perfectly with the high clouds racing overhead and the glow of the city lights in the distance. I even got a little help with the cold weather because some of the folks in town had fires burning. Their smoke after filtering through the air was thin enough to help create the perfect flare from the signals' light.
Taken from the fence line surrounding the house track in Old Monroe, Mo. on the BNSF Hannibal Sub. on December 6th, 2015 just before a UCEX coal load ripped through town.
Knocking off mile my mile and cruising at every bit of track speed train 107 with a LNG set up front splits the 63 signals in the middle of Dorena siding. The entire 20 hours or so on the FEC were irritating, frustrating and just rather interesting. From wild hogs going nuts in the woods next to me here, the homeless life in Saint Augustine coming out of the thicket and almost getting hit to just getting plan ole cloud fucked, and trains running way off schedule on a fairly scheduled railroad. FEC was not my friend this trip but I did still get a few decent trains.
With some time to kill and no interest in looking for VTR 263 this time since it had a blue leaser leading again I decided I'd go find a shot of Amtrak 55, the southbound Vermonter from St. Albans to Washington.
The north end of the 8887 ft. siding at Walpole North (MP 146.8) on the New England Central Railroad's Palmer Sub features a nice set of Boston and Maine era searchlight signals. Interestingly the northbound signal is offset and features a 'doll arm' with a rare blue light making for an interesting historic scene with the train splitting the classic signals.
Charlestown, New Hampshire
Friday September 16, 2022
After dropping some rail near mile 6 and 18 on the Fording sub, a CWR train heads south back to Sparwood where it would tie down for the night. Here we have it passing the signal on the approach to Elkview, the mine seen in the background.
Union Pacific's daily Ogden - Cheyenne manifest pulls its 75-car train under signal bridge 9469 between Baskin and Emory, Utah in Echo Canyon on June 27, 1992. UP's signal and cantilever bridges were removed from the Evanston Subdivision two decades ago. They were a necessity for signal aspect viewing when this left-hand running railroad operated steam locomotives with very long boilers. Not much of a problem for a crew in an SD40-2 with a low hood.
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Metra 1317 heads west around the sweeping curve at Lisle, passing under one of the classic CB&Q signal bridges at East Lisle. At this point in time, these old bridges were still up on the western half of the Racetrack - all are gone now.
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Instow railway station was a railway station in the village of Instow, North Devon, England, on the Bideford Extension of the North Devon Railway. Opened in November 1855, the station closed to passengers in 1965, but the line remained open for freight until 1982. The signal box has been preserved as a working attraction. The Atlantic Coast Express used to go through the station on its way to Torrington, but it did not call at Instow.
The former site of the railway tracks is now part of the Tarka Trail.
Detail of New Street Signal Box, Navigation Street, Birmingham. Designed bu architects Bicknell & Hamilton and completed in 1966, it is now Grade II listed by Historic England.
This is 45047 at the head of the 07.35 Bristol to Leeds, the picture is taken at Nuneaton Abbey Junction on Sunday April 22nd 1979.
The reason the picture is scary (for me) is that it was taken from the top of a very tall signal. I am not happy with heights but the signalman suggested that if I wanted a really great shot I should go and climb the signal...really! Not wanting to be seen as a wimp I did just that. It was a high narrow ladder and as I approached the signal seemed to stretch to the sky. Up I went in time for the train, the camera was set at 1/1000 of a second more because I was shaking with fear than to stop the train. The driver opened up the Peak which was bad enough but the worst part was when the signalman dropped the peg back to danger, the whole signal shook.
Lord knows what would have happened to the bobby had I fallen off or 'froze' and couldn't get down, I know I was as white as a sheet when I returned to the box, the bobby just said "Did you get a good picture?"
On this day the bobby didn't care where I wandered, all over the tracks, in the box, no problem.
There should be a picture of another train, with the signal in the background, to accompany this shot.
45047 was built at Crewe Works, as D69 it went into traffic at Crewe North 18/10/1960. The Peak was withdrawn 03/08/1980 and cut at Derby Works in February 1981.
Copyright Geoff Dowling 22/04/1979: All rights reserved