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Railway signal lghtes arrayed in a row. Wide angle with HDR enhancement. Taken at the Illinois Railway Museum www.irm.org
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9f 92214 awaits the signal to enter the station, 78019 awaits the signal to re enter and back onto its train.
On a sunny Friday in March, an eastbound train of mostly trailers passes the endangered Santa Fe signal bridges at Edelstein, Illinois on the BNSF Chillicothe Subdivision. The units in this train's consist are already in dynamic braking as its engineer prepares for the 1.1% descending grade that begins a half mile to the east, and which takes the former AT&SF tracks into the Illinois River valley at Chillicothe.
A westbound Northeast Regional train flies towards Edison Station, passing under a signal gantry chock full of Position Color Lights (colorized Position Lights, not to be confused with Color Position Lights used by the B&O).
Former Baltimore & Ohio position light signals glow green through the fog as a westbound CSX freight train approaches Carothers Tunnel on the Magnolia Cutoff near Paw Paw, West Virginia.
The north track of CN's Chicago Subdivision has been removed between Oakwood and 21st Street, leaving 16th Street Crossing a bit less cluttered and this signal guarding nothing. Behind it on the St Charles Air Line, Amtrak's southbound 'Illini' clunks across Metra's Rock Island District.
KJRY 1750 leads a westbound freight past the signal that once guarded the BNSF diamond in Canton, IL.
on the platform at Tabata-station in Tokyo.
I pass through in front of this signal every morning.
He who seems an old robot is standing at end of the platform and working for safety traffic all day.
Sometimes, I get to want to say good morning to him.
#tair11 #oldlens
Amtrak Veterans NPCU 90221 leads a Hiawatha East past the tri light signals at North Glenview. Glenview, IL
After decades of valiant service, the original Wabash southbound signal at Lodge was officially turned, cut, and shutdown forever. Rather unceremoniously, the heads were all turned and the wires that connected the signal to the relay cabinet were cut and stripped. 150 yards to the south, the "new" signal has been finally turned to face the tracks after having been installed nearly two years prior, and testing of all the indications is underway.
The reason for this change is visible on the left. The relay cabinet and the rollercoaster of codeline were deemed unnecessary - and potentially more costly to utilize - so the signal was moved back in order to condense the Lodge control point. Of note is that the codelines primary purpose here is in fact power supply, not the actual signal to the signal.
So, big whoop, right? A searchlight replaced with a searchlight. Fair trade, no? In a way, yes, and really nothing changes that much. But the replaced signal was a piece of the lines history. Formerly known as the Forrest District under the Wabash, the signals at Lodge date back until 1959 at the latest. There's something to be said about comparing the swap to the ship of Theseus - if all the rest of these searchlights were replaced with different ones, would it really be exactly the same?
At any rate, the fate of the Lodge 3-header has not been kind. We had hoped to acquire the whole signal and preserve it, but alas, when I asked about it the morning of, I was told we wouldn't be able to buy it because they were desperate for the parts inside.
The bright side? These parts salvaged from this signal will help keep the rest of the Bloomington District signals going - I asked about the rumour from earlier this year and it was confirmed false, the rest of the searchlights are not coming down in the foreseeable future. The day they do, well, that's when the preservation efforts can really begin.
Two hours after this photo was taken - while I was at work - the signal was pulled down, alongside the relay cabinet that housed the troublesome battery that was half the cause of the signals removal, and placed on a trailer. The trailer would be left overnight. A reliable source confirmed that they had already stripped the Lodge signal of its internal mechanism, reducing the entire signal to a thousand pound shell. Now, the signal is gone forever.
ROG Class 37 No.37800 "Cassiopeia" comes off the relief freight line at Hereford onto the Down main passing the impressive Hereford signal box. This is the 5Q79 Barton Under Needwood to Landore unit drag comprising TfW Class 175 3-car unit No. 175109, with 37608 at the rear.
Modified Hall Class 6990 "Witherslack Hall" emerging from Beeches Road bridge, Loughborough, Great Central Railway
When I took this shot last September I did not at first realise that the box was now closed but if you zoom in on the notice in the window you will see it says 1896 - 2016. A quick Google and I came across this Facebook page for Lowdham Railway Heritage:- www.facebook.com/lowdhamsignalbox/ and clearly, it is to be kept and relocated as a piece of valuable local heritage. What a great idea and it makes me sad to think that such could have become of the box at my local Maghull Station instead of demolition.
Lowdham, Nottinghamshire, UK
Shrewsbury, one of only a handful of locations on the UK rail network where semaphore signals are still in use. In the background is the mighty Severn Bridge Junction signal box, the largest operational mechanical signal box in the world.
A timeless railway scene at Uffington & Barnack signal box, with a cast-iron 'Beware of Trains' sign to boot!
15-08-2025
Old railroad signal towers abandoned by Southern Pacific as part of the installation of the mandated Positive Train Control System. Sage Ghost Town, Lincoln County, Wyoming.
The signal gives the Fairburn designed '4MT' 2-6-4T no.42073 the all clear to enter Lakeside station.
Peter van Campenhout’s 2018 L&HR 42073 Charter
Class 45/1 45144 'Royal Signals' at Crewe Works in the company of 40150 on 22nd October 1983. The 'Peak' remained in service until December 1987 and was cut up during the following year by Vic Berry in Leicester.
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Exposition au MoMA NYC explorant l'impact révolutionnaire de la vidéo sur le monde, à travers des œuvres artistiques engagées et innovantes.
I haven't taken any landscape photos in a couple months. So, I figured it was about time to go out and take some. I took an early morning trip to Signal Hill and took some shots of the snow covered hill and city.
New print release
A mix of fog and bushfire smoke fill the jamison valley on sunrise in the beautiful Blue Mountains, Australia.
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
The final battle of the Seven Years' War in North America was fought in 1762 at the Battle of Signal Hill, in which the French surrendered St. John's to a British force under the command of Lt. Colonel William Amherst. Lt. Colonel Amherst renamed what was then known as "The Lookout" as "Signal Hill," because of the signalling that took place upon its summit from its flagmast. Flag communication between land and sea would take place there from the 17th century until 1960.
During Signal Hill's first construction period in the late 18th century, Signal Hill was designated as the citadel for St. John's.
Marconi watching associates raise kite antenna at Signal Hill, December 1901
During the 19th century, Signal Hill was manned specifically during the Napoleonic Wars and the American Civil War. A second construction period in Signal Hill's history saw the construction of the Queen's Battery Barracks, which has been completely restored to the period of 1862.
Construction on Cabot Tower began in 1897 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 and the 400th anniversary of John Cabot's landfall in 1497. The building was declared officially open in 1900. The practical uses of the building were flag mast signalling, and a Marconi wireless station which has since been moved to St. John's International Airport.
On 12 December 1901, the first transatlantic wireless transmission was received here by Guglielmo Marconi in an abandoned fever and diphtheria hospital, which has since been destroyed by fire.[1] The transmission, in Morse code, originated from his Poldhu Wireless Station, Cornwall, UK.
The United States maintained anti-aircraft guns on the hill during World War II.
Smoke signals from 'TheCastle'? The puffs of smoke generated from the exhaust certainly look to be smoke signals from the footplate of No. 7029 'Clun Castle' as it roars through Colton, on the approach to Rugeley Trent Valley', while heading the return Vintage Trains 'Chester Venturer' 1Zxx 1715 Chester - Tyseley Steam Trust charter on 27th March 2022. Copyright Photograph John Whitehopuse - all rights reserved
A creek near Signal Mountain. Chattanooga, Tennessee is located in the eastern part of the state on the Cumberland Plateau. The city is surrounded by gorges, mountains and beautiful countryside. It has been experiencing a revitalization lately.
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For now, signal territory starts and ends between here and Merrill Road some 11-12 mile ahead. Furthermore, there is a gap of about 10 miles west between here and MP 180 where the next signal lies. In the coming year(s) with both slated grant work and CSX taking over, TCS will be extended from MP180 through to Leeds Junction and create actual controlled sidings, as well as control the ability to line the switch at Leeds Jct. For now, it's business as usual on Pan Am as they get underway out of Danville encroaching on the dark hours of the day.
© David K. Edwards. A most important site for early radio pioneers. Dots and dashes and a communications miracle. There are still quite a lot of wires.
Back before the COVID-19 stay-at-home quarantine began, I began organizing some of my older photos. This is one of the first photos I forgot about and edited.
One of the last train photos I took with my 2005-vintage Olympus C-60Z digital camera. It wouldn't survive much longer, forcing me to buy a second one from eBay. Fortunately, I had gotten my first DSLR (Canon Rebel XTi) not long before this, and I was still waiting on a memory card and camera bag for it before I could begin using it (back when 4GB CompactFlash cards were still really expensive).
Here we see BNSF H2 4544 going east through the CB&Q-era East Somonauk signal bridge in Somonauk, IL on the BNSF Mendota Sub. This signal bridge survived until 2011, but it's counterpart at West Somonauk was taken out in a derailment with Amtrak in 2006.