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The iconic five smoke stacks of the Kearny Generating Station as seen from along Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.
The location and date of the first searchlight signal on the Chicago & North Western are not recorded for posterity. However, we know that the earliest known installation of searchlights on the C&NW's came around 1934 in the northern suburbs of Chicago along Lake Michigan.
The motivation for this installation was the new steam-powered streamliners planned by the railroad for the Chicago-Twin Cities market, where the CB&Q and Milwaukee Road were the competition.
The North Western's streamlined trains – dubbed the "400" – were scheduled to make the 400-mile journey between Chicago, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis in approximately 400 minutes. In order to accomplish this objective, the railroad projected speeds well in excess of 100 mph on portions of the route.
The many elderly Hall "banjo" signals in Chicago's north shore suburbs at the time were considered obsolete and had poor visibility characteristics not suitable for a high-speed route. Further, the block spacing of the old signals did not provide the braking distances necessary for high speed operation.
Always a loyal customer of General Railway Signal, the C&NW chose the GRS Model SA-1 searchlight unit in part because of its superior performance in the foggy conditions that plagued the areas near the lake during parts of the year. For reasons not known, the North Western elected to use elongated backgrounds rather than the circular form of background conventional elsewhere. This became a distinct hallmark of C&NW signaling.
With the 1934 installation a success, the SA-1 searchlight became the standard signal type for new installations on the North Western system. Following World War II, a large CTC installation on C&NW's Chicago-Council Bluffs main line continued use of the SA-1 and its distinctive backgrounds.
Only in the late Eighties did C&NW begin to prefer color light signals over searchlights for new work. Some 21 years after disappearing into the Union Pacific signal, searchlights can still be found on the former Chicago & North Western routes. However, as with most other vintage signals, their days are numbered.
9 February 2020, Arbroath
Arbroath harbour sea defences being tested at high tide as Storm Ciara rages across the UK.
Photo by and courtesy of Neil Smedley. For more of Neil's photos see this group: www.flickr.com/groups/14774027@N21/.
Framed by the rather nice gantry of lower-quadrant semaphores, 'Royal Scot' no 46117 'Welsh Guardsman' gets away from Trent with an express. The fireman seems to be looking back and seeing the train out of the platform. Judging by the steam from the safety valves there is no urgent need for firing.
The photographer makes a guest appearance via his shadow in the lower right-hand corner.
Probably 24 March 1961.
A blue phone box in Leeds, a city in West Yorkshire.
AQL have converted 24 old British Telecom red phone boxes into mini WiFi hubs, they repainted them blue, as a partial tribute to Doctor Who's Tardis.
They broadcast a free WiFi signal powered by solar energy, and through a series of touch screens on the outside, are available for phone calls, video messaging and emergency phone calls too.
The old English name for the city of Leeds is Leodis, so these boxes have been given a suitably full acronym: Leeds Electronic Ordnance and Digital Information System, or LEODIS.
Dr Adam Beaumont, CEO of AQL commented: “The boxes will also allow members of the public to leave video blogs and soundbites of their memories of the area in past times. We won’t be putting the blue boxes in any other cities, as we want them to be a symbol of Leeds, we want them to become iconic.”
Information Source:
www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2013/07/leeds-is-invaded-b...
Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway, Alna, Maine. This two-foot gauge line is built on the right-of-way of the original WW&F and runs from Sheepscot Station over three miles of track (with more opening in August 2022). The star attraction is 0-4-4T No. 9, built by the Portland Company in 1891 for the Sandy River, and later used by the WW&F until its abandonment in the 1930s. The railroad is an incredible time machine into the past. You won't find radios - all moves are done with whistle signals and hand signs.
This lightning strike appears to form a complete circle, even though if you look closely it just twists back and ends close to itself.
Not my favorite image of all-time, but I like the uniqueness of the strike :)
The distant signal for East Cuba had already been a non-searchlight for some time, but on this trip I noted that a 2nd head has been added for the westbound aspect - allowing for additional aspects can be displayed and also is a sure sign that the Searchlights at East Cuba have been replaced.
-BNSF SD70ACe #8592, BNSF ES44C4 #7091 leading power
-BNSF Train Q-STLLAC
-BNSF (ex-Frisco) Cuba Sub, MP 83.6
-Hollingshead Rd Crossing, East of Cuba, MO
-September 16, 2018
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Stack train 20T splits the signals at the Abel control point west of Dawson, IL.
NS 7556 - ES44DC
NS 7511 - ES44DC
NS 4369 - AC44C6M (rear DPU)
Abel CP - Dawson, Illinois
February 26, 2021
Signal du Bougès, which at 1,421m is both the highest point on the ridge and marks our highest point for the day’s walking. The grey clouds are an ominous sign of what was to come.
Chemin de Stevenson-2018-D9-15: Day 9 of 13 – Le Pont de Montvert to Florac: Walking the Chemin de Stevenson (GR 70 Robert Louis Stevenson Trail) in the south of France.
Taken out in the back field - Plummers Peak is visible -- lower left -- there's a Forest Service Fire Lookout up there.
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"In silence it falls away ....
here now, at this moment,
at this place ..."
--Zenkei Shibayama
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Having crossed over the Illinois River and passed the one-time crew change point at Chillicothe without stopping, a Willow Springs, IL to North Bay, California trailer train rolls through the "S" curve at the west end of Chillicothe Yard and past the signal bridges at the West Chillicothe control point.
Just a few hundred yards west of this point, the five engines will begin to pull their train of trailers for the San Francisco-Oakland area up the 1.1% grade up Edelstein hill and out of the Illinois River valley.
This train was symboled as the Z WSPNBY9 21L.
This is Cark station possibly in 1952. By the stance of the chap on the platform the train is arriving and is stopping short of where he thought it would. Cark looks a lovely little country station with good buildings which have a glazed canopy, a substantial goods shed in the goods yard and a fine signal box.
42402 was built at Derby Works, it was a Fowler 2-6-4T and it entered traffic as 2402 on 20/09/1933. The loco was withdrawn 13/10/1962 and scrapped 11/03/1963. At the time of Peter's picture it was an 11B Barrow-in-Furness allocated machine
Peter Shoesmith 1952 (?)
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The antenna in Signal Hill is decorated as a towering Christmas. It becomes a local landmark as it is visible across much of south land.
So I took this picture during the evening rush hour on Friday after the TTC had signal trouble yet again. Even though they kept repeating that there was no service, the trains weren't going anywhere and shuttle buses were upstairs, people still kept coming downstairs and waiting inside the trains. To fix this, they turned off all the lights and closed the doors on both trains.
Anyways, the TTC is in need of some serious funding because it's only going to get worse before it gets better.
The Griswold Signal Company manufactured these types of "rotating banner" signals, beginning in 1927. When the crossing signal was activated, a rotating stop sign would turn to face the motorist/pedestrian/bicyclist. These signals were common in Minnesota, but could be found elsewhere. This one greets visitors at the Minnesota Transportation Museum.
According to Wikipedia, "As of November 2016, there are only half a dozen known Griswold signals still in service along active rail, all in Minnesota, none with rotating stop sign signals. The last pair with an operating banner protected 22nd Ave NE in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Griswolds in Tacoma, Washington and San Jose, California were both removed circa 2010.".
Volunteer signaller Mandy at the levers in the signal box at Arley station during Severn Valley Railway’s Step Back to the 1940s event on 8 June 2025.
The current signal box was reconstructed from 1974 to 1976 approximately on the site of the original signal box. The frame, which has 30 levers, is originally from Kidderminster Station.
A pair of Northern Class 150 units pass Blackpool North No2 signal Box on the approach to Blackpool North Station from Preston (2N94).