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Sometimes leaving out the locomotives can really accentuate another element of the scene which is what I tried to accomplish here. So for today's Freight Car Friday here's another take on NS train 11T (loaded double stacked trash containers from Greencastle, PA to Uniontown, AL) with motion blur of the well cars and stacks drawing the eye to the classic CPL signals.
A brief history for those who perhaps aren't familiar. Norfolk Southern's modern day Roanoke District mainline is a historic former Norfolk and Western Railway route that was the original pre merger N&W's outlet to northern markets via connections with the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Western Maryland. Formed in 1870 as the Shenandoah Valley Railroad with financial backing from the PRR the portion of the line from Shephardston to the Shenandoah River opened in 1879 followed by the extension north to Hagerstown in 1880 and south to Roanoke in 1882 marking completion of the 240 mile long route up the valley. Within a few years the company was bankrupt and after several years or legal and financial wrangling it became a part of the growing N&W system and has remained integral to it and its successor to this day.
Per Jeff Hawkins' wonderful site on all things Virginia railroading:
Due to the Pennsylvania Railroad's ownership stake in the N&W, the company began utilizing position light signals in the 1920's. The first position light signals were installed on the Shenandoah Division between Hagerstown and Shenandoah in February 1924. In December 1926 the remaining segment of the line to Roanoke was activated. In the early 1960's the N&W removed the center light and changed the lights around the outer perimeter to color bulbs, hence the term color position light signal.
The train is seen here hustling past the timetable location known as Pkin at MP H165.6 as they leave single track and diverge onto Main 1 for a stretch of double track extending 3.1 miles south to Vesuvius. While most of the CPLs south of here appeared to remain in service I'm not sure how many remain north to Shenandoah and beyond up the Hagerstown District...if any.
Rising beyond is the flank of 3640 ft. Cellar Mountain in the Northern Blue Ridge Mountains in the Saint Mary's Wilderness area of George Washington & Jefferson National Forest.
For a nice concise map of the Roanoke District I again reference Jeff Hawkins' resources:
www.railfanvirginia.com/NS Roanoke.htm
Near unincorporated Steeles Tavern
Augusta County, Virginia
Friday March 29, 2024
A restricting signal (often termed a switching signal by crews) is displayed for CN 536, which is working between the non-CTC Valleyfield Sub and the CTC Kingston Sub (Marche à Vue in French). This signal serves almost as a small interlocking location located within the Coteau Junction plant. A train can pass on either side of this signal and it will keep displaying this red over yellow aspect. Thanks to Lorence Toutant for help with the caption.
With NS traffic ahead having cleared CP482 in Porter, Indiana, a CSX westbound has the signal to move off the Grand Rapids Subdivision onto the NS Chicago Line.
Statesville, NC. March 2022.
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Wilmslow signal box located alongside between the Down Main line (in front of the signal box) and the Down Styal line at the south end of Wilmslow railway station
Wilmslow signal box was a British Railways London Midland Region non standard design, one of three similar signal boxes built in connection with the Crewe to Manchester 25kV overhead electrification. It was built by EB Jones and opened fitted with a Westinghouse Brake & Signal Company Limited one control switch panel on 26th June 1959 under stage 2 of the resignalling between Crewe and Cheadle Hulme, replacing Chelford Loop, Chelford Station, Chelford Sidings, Alderley Edge, Wilmslow Station, and Handford Sidings signal boxes. The signal box was closed at 01:30 on 10th December 2005 and demolished within a month during upgrading of the line between Crewe and Cheadle Hulme, officially closing on 19th June 2006 when signalling controlled by Manchester South Signalling Control Centre was commissioned
Ref no BT/00782
Signal cabin at high level - Balham to East/West Croydon line in foreground at Streatham Common station - 27.8.78
Amtrak's westbound Cardinal has a clear indication at the intermediate signal south of Linden, Indiana, on the CSX Monon Subdivision.
Flamborough Head Fog Signal Station.
In 1859 a fog signal station was built at some distance from the lighthouse, close to the cliff edge. Initially an 18-pound gun was used as the fog signal, sounded once every fifteen minutes. A cottage was built within the compound as accommodation for the gunners. In 1878, explosive rockets replaced the cannon, discharged every 10 minutes in foggy and reaching an altitude of 600 feet.
In 1908 an engine house was built next to the cottage and a fog siren replaced the rockets; it sounded one long and one short blast, every 90 seconds, through a pair of Rayleigh trumpets mounted on the engine room roof. Compressed air for the siren was provided by a pair of 22 hp Hornsby oil engines linked to a single-cylinder Hornsby compressor.
In 1924 the siren was replaced by a pair of diaphones, mounted in a metal turret on top of a porch added to the front of the engine house. This was itself superseded by an electric fog signal in 1975.
The fog signal compound remains in Trinity House ownership; along with the modern fog signal apparatus.
KJRY's Santa Train heads west past the abandoned signal in Canton, IL. This is where the former CB&Q Yates City Line once crossed this one on a diamond, which still lies in the weeds just out of view to the right.
More signals by Welsh's Bridge Box at Inverness. Attempts to photograph trains here were thwarted by cloud - the sun being very intermittent.
An eastbound stack train kicks up fresh show as it approaches a high green at West Essex. BNSF is replacing older searchlight style signals across the pass.
Class 'J' 4-8-4 no 611 eastbound, smoking despite the downhill gradient, passes under new signal gantries at Singer, west of Roanoke, Virginia, on the former Norfolk & Western Railroad's main line, with the return leg of an excursion from Radford. 29 May 2017
A winter sunset silhouettes the power lines and train order signal at the former Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific station on Warson Road at Lackland, Missouri, USA, 22 December 1984.
The signal is a modern lightweight signal based on a flat panel design containing LEDs to show each of the three colour aspects. These are becoming increasingly common in the UK as older signalling is renewed. The smaller black tile represents the signal identification plate.
Also shown is the signalpost telephone. In the past these phones would have been mounted directly onto the signalpost itself, but the modern standard is to have them separate with a walkway and rail for protection.
The Signal Tower stands on the shore at the mouth of the harbour. The top of the building was formed into a small observatory and contained a 5-foot achromatic telescope, a flagstaff and a copper signal-ball measuring 18 inches in diameter. By means of this, and a corresponding ball at the Lighthouse, specific signals were kept up daily between Arbroath and the Bell Rock
These mechanical signals have become rare, replaced by ones that are just lights. I like the old ones, though :-)
This army private sports an embroidered Signal Corps enlisted man's hat patch pinned unconventionally onto the left breast of his shell jacket.
CDV photo by S. Dome & co., Greencastle, Pa.
The principal elements of the Signal Corps badge included a pair of crossed signal flags over the letters "U.S." in old English script. Although not officially adopted by army regulations, the enlisted man's hat badge differed from that of officers in that it did not have an encircling gold wreath enclosing the crossed signal flags, nor did it have a lit torch in the center of the crossed flags. Instead the enlisted man's badge included a field of 13 stars in the space above the crossed flags.
Because it was perceived as being in direct competition to the Military Telegraph Service, the Signal Corps was constituted as a provisional body and not as a permanent branch of the U.S. Army and the use of identifying insignia did not come about until late in the war. Officially, the Signal Corps did not receive permanent status until 1866, a year after the war was over. But by then, its field experience during the war had proved its worth.
Exit signals, Łupków direction, train station in Komańcza (Subcarpathia, Poland).
My grandpa used to have some beehives ca. 4 km from this place. When I was a child we often get a train to came here from Sanok to look after bees. I wish I could turn back the time and take such trip once more.
I'm not sure if the train station is used for passenger traffic anymore. I know there are some trains which are ending the route in Zagórz, about 30 km north from Komańcza.
I'm afraid only irregular cargo trains rearly appear here.
6P41 0957 Harwich Refinery Crls Slvs to North Walsham Gbrf condensate tanks service is seen passing through Ipswich station at 1116.
Back to film, using Kentmere400 exposed at EI200. It, or I, am inconsistent wit regard to outcomes on tonality, but the grain holds up well with one stop reduction with Xtol stock. Will need to work with this more in the diversity of climate from CO to CA. Thanks to the flickeranians who keep inspiring us all to get out and capture.
Wilmslow signal box located alongside between the Down Main line (in front of the signal box) and the Down Styal line at the south end of Wilmslow railway station
Wilmslow signal box was a British Railways London Midland Region non standard design, one of three similar signal boxes built in connection with the Crewe to Manchester 25kV overhead electrification. It was built by EB Jones and opened fitted with a Westinghouse Brake & Signal Company Limited one control switch panel on 26th June 1959 under stage 2 of the resignalling between Crewe and Cheadle Hulme, replacing Chelford Loop, Chelford Station, Chelford Sidings, Alderley Edge, Wilmslow Station, and Handford Sidings signal boxes. The signal box was closed at 01:30 on 10th December 2005 and demolished within a month during upgrading of the line between Crewe and Cheadle Hulme, officially closing on 19th June 2006 when signalling controlled by Manchester South Signalling Control Centre was commissioned
Ref no BT/00781
Eastbourne signal box on 5th September 2002. It was built in 1882 and was converted to a NX panel power signal box in 1991. The box closed in 2015 when the line was resignalled and control was moved to the signalling centre at Three Bridges.
Signal Fire
12"16"
original acrylic painting by Chelsea Rose
Blogged here: lucidrose.blogspot.com/2015/03/sasquatch-and-zodiac-art-s...
NS 13G with the Wabash heritage unit passes underneath the 10.8 signals at Haysville while 3 different signal indications are shown in the background for eastbounds.
Quiz time: Can you name the 3 signal indications?
Rescanned at higher resolution with better colour and image quality
The junction station at St Georges d'Aurac Gare, as at many rural locations in France retained mechanical signalling in 2005 (it may still do so - can anyone confirm ?)
Class X4630 Caravelle units X4646 and X8435 approach a stop signal protecting the end of the passing loop while changing platforms
The impressive signal box at Aberystwyth, at the terminus of the Cambrian Railways main line. It was built by Signalling Contractors, Dutton & Co. and was to the Type 3 design with roofed landing. It opened in 1893 and contained a frame of 71 levers, soon extended to 78 levers to cope with expansion at the station. When the GWR absorbed the Cambrian Railways system after the 1923 Grouping, they installed a frame of 100 levers of their own manufacture. With rationalisation of the station layout, the box closed on 25th April 1982 and the line was then controlled by 'No Signalman Token' Regulations from Dovey Junction. This was superceded in 1988 by Radio Token Block controlled from Machynlleth. Note the fine concrete post lower quadrant signal on the left. There was a number of these concrete post signals on the former Cambrian Railways system and probably dated from the early days of GWR control. The upper quadrant bracket signal on the right, is much later and dates from the time after the London Midland Region assumed responsibility for the line.