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The eastbound starter signal at March Station, with March East Junction Signal Box caught just behind. Saturday 16.12.17
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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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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 it was withdrawn 28/02/2004 and cut by C.F. Booth at Rotherham 10/06/2004.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.
Amtrak Veterans NPCU 90221 leads a Hiawatha East past the tri light signals at North Glenview. Glenview, IL
NS 5638, 5358, and 5627 lead about a dozen cars on local train CT10 east under the old PRR signals for westbounds at CP WandLE in Downtown Canton on the morning of 4/20/16.
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.
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.
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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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.
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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
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.
The last wild Griswold in the state of Iowa that I'm aware of, protecting an abandoned Iowa Traction line at 15th St NE in Mason City.
Resident signaller, Richard Jones, operates the levers inside Hereford signal box, most of which are active.
Vintage network infrastructure at Sellafield on 20 May 2015 as Direct Rail Services 37611 and 37218 head to the stabling point and eventually that morning back light engine to Carlisle, having previously brought in two nuclear flasks from Carlisle, originating from Torness during the previous day. The Sellafield site perimeter fencing and border strip on the rising ground to the left eerily takes me back to my time spent in Berlin during the 'Cold War' in the early 1970s!
© Gordon Edgar - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission
Almost forty years ago, yours truly climbed a signal at Laurel Run, Pennsylvania to check a possible photo angle, and my cousin, Bob Markle, recorded the deed. Where did that 21-year-old go?
1054 [58926] LNWR Webb 0-6-2T Coal Tank during the Gala Weekend on the SVR departs from Bridgnorth October 1986
I have removed a modern streetlight which was annoyingly positioned just to the left of the loco. To many uprights next to each other! A little annoyed that the telegraph pole is not fully visible but at least there is an impression that the wires are not just hanging in mid-air.
Lightshow on barque Passat, Travemünde Week 2019
"Passat is a German four-masted steel barque and one of the Flying P-Liners, the famous sailing ships of the German shipping company F. Laeisz. She is one of the last surviving windjammers. (The name "Passat" is German for trade wind.)
Passat was launched in 1911 at the Blohm & Voss shipyard, Hamburg. She began her maiden voyage on Christmas Eve 1911 toward Cape Horn and the nitrate ports of Chile. She was used for decades to ship general cargo outbound and nitrate home. [...]
In 1957, a few weeks after the tragic loss of Pamir in mid-Atlantic and shortly after having been severely hit by a storm, Passat was decommissioned. She had almost experienced the same fate as the Pamir when her loose barley cargo shifted.
Passat was purchased in 1959 by the Baltic Sea municipality of Lübeck and is now a youth hostel, venue, museum ship, and landmark moored at Travemünde, a borough of Lübeck in the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein. [...]"
(Wikipedia)