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Another fantastic night in the Tetons! Last night we went up to Signal Mountain to see a stunning display of stars. I found it fitting to 'signal' the Andromeda universe, a satellite joined in for the fun too.
I'll be leaving the area soon, still undecided where to go. I have a few weeks to explore before my next workshop back in the Tetons (still some space left btw)
ISO 12,800, 20 secs, f/2. Rokion 24mm
LMS Black 5 44871 has the road at Whittlesey, departing the station with a Norwich to Worcester rail tour on Saturday. On the line between Peterborough and Ely, the station also retains hand operated level crossing gates and its signal box.
URR 23, 22, 25, 16 lead the empty 66 coke train from Port Perry/Dexter yard are arriving back home into Clairton passing the C1 signal. 66 job ran on two shifts, they would run loads from Clairton to Braddock and to the CSX at Dexter yard. The midnight job would always take "dinner" at coal valley just north of Clairton until around about 7-730 and would then roll down into the mill to yard their train and tie up at 10am. Here the mid night train is running late and is rolling into the mill well behind schedule and would die while yarding the train.
Oh No ! Bentley Heath Signal Box is being ripped apart like a Christmas Cracker, with little respect for the yaers it has stood there guarding Mill Lane & The Railway.......10/02/2008
BNSF 7590 passes under the old Santa Fe signal bridges with a long stack train at Mp. 313 in La Plata, MO. on the BNSF Marceline Sub. (5-1-2013)
Now a thing of the past, I wish I had photographed these more and the others along the line for that matter.
British Railways Class 9F 92214 passes array of Semophore Signal in the Subrubs of Loughborough,train was enroute to Leicester on 01/01/2016
Railway signal lghtes arrayed in a row. Wide angle with HDR enhancement. Taken at the Illinois Railway Museum www.irm.org
Large size: www.flickr.com/photos/vidular/2706118387/sizes/o/
The moon sets next to the iconic Santa Fe Signal Bridge on the BNSF Marceline Sub. west of Bucklin at MP 342.
We planned all week on make our way up here to shoot the remaining ATSF Signal Bridges one last time before they fall later this year, as they are scheduled to. The BNSF had other plans, as 19 minutes before our arrival, 27 miles to our west, the H GALKCK1 12A derailed over a dozen cars at MP 370 on the Grand River Bridge near Bosworth, causing most trains to be tied down, and a few to be detoured via the connection at Bucklin with the Brookfield Sub.
5-13-17
Bucklin, MO
Approaching Smethwick Junction Signal Box on an utterly miserable Sunday morning is 37225 with a freight train diverted from the Lickey route which was closed for engineering work. The signal man warned us it was coming and said it was a Bescot to Severn Tunnel Junction.
Today the old closed station of Smethwick West is approached via this ramp but in 1979 the correct way was through the road level booking office. Of course the signal box has now gone, all Stourbridge trains would have come through the tunnel and started at Birmingham New Street. Today they emerge from the line to the left having stopped at the new Galton Bridge station, this is now the Jewellery Line and for the core of the route (Tyseley to Stourbridge Junction) it has a 10 minute service.
37225 was built at the English Electric Vulcan Foundry as D6925, it was delivered new to 87E Landore depot 07/02/1964. it was withdrawn 28/02/2004 and cut by C.F. Booth at Rotherham 10/06/2004.
This picture has never been printed, I took 2 frames and prefered the second with the loco passing the signal box today I would have taken this version as my favourite.
Copyright Geoff Dowling 11/02/1979: All rights reserved
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).
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.
On a hike to Yant Flat north of St George, Utah, the view north to Signal Peak with its remaining snow caught my admiration. Signal Peak (10,369') is the highest point in the Pine Valley Mountains.
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.
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.
© Gordon Edgar - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission
This scene was taken at the back of Silvertown Station Signal box on Christmas Eve 1956, an unrecognisable new Silvertown station is now in use, it was transferred to the DLR and is called Silvertown and London City Airport. When Peter visited it was a grubby London branch line, busy with local freight and with a reasonable passenger service.
68662 was an A. Hill design for the Great Eastern Railway J38 class. The loco was built at Stratford Works, it entered service in November 1923 as 36E, in 1924 under grouping it was numbered LNER 7036, in 1947 it became 8662 and under BR 68662. The loco was withdrawn 18/08/1958 and scrapped in February 1959.
Peter Shoesmith 24/12/1956
Copyright Geoff Dowling & John Whitehouse: All rights reserved
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.