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It stands alone, its branches like arms outstretched, near the Cuyahoga River on Akron's north side.
Its massive trunk, its age-stained bark. Its scars of the past. The Signal Tree is a spectacular sight, but it swirls in mystery.
Who was it that "forced" its growth pattern? If age estimates of 350-560 years are to be believed, it may have been Native Americans that traveled through the area in that time frame, well before settlers came to the Western Reserve.
The famous "Portage Path" is in the area, a few miles away, where American Indians portaged their canoes between the north-flowing Cuyahoga River to the south-flowing Tuscarawas River. Indigenous peoples are known to use strangely shaped trees as boundary markers or directional landmarks, and as gathering places for ceremonies.
Seeing the tree today does invite the imagination to wander. According to Mike Greene of Summit Metroparks, there really is no way to confirm any of the legends.
"The key is determining its age," he said. "The tree may be ancient, or it may younger. No one knows because there are very few mentions of the oddly shaped tree in historic records."
For about a hundred years before the Summit Metroparks established the park on land owned by the city of Akron, the tree was located in an area that was dotted with residences. There were farms, and even a junkyard that was active into the 1960s. There are some early photos of the tree, but none have surfaced before the first half on the 20th century.
It's a calming place, and begs the mind to wander. Did Native Americans meet here or hold ceremonies around the tree? Did Civil War soldiers march by it? Did the workers and people who traveled along the Ohio and Erie Canal, which runs right through Akron, stop here?
The tree has seen Akron change from agricultural center to canal town to a manufacturing mecca during the Industrial Revolution. It's seen Akron grow to be the Rubber Capitol of the world, as well as its demise, and the rubber shops and surrounding manufacturing closed. Still, the whole while, standing in the Cuyahoga Valley with arms outstretched.
Bottesford West Junction signal box seen from a DMU taking the Newark line. Rare for service trains and long gone.
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Hammersmith railway station is a heritage railway station on the Midland Railway - Butterley in Derbyshire.
There was no station at this point originally, being situated on the Ambergate to Pye Bridge Line. However, when the line was reopened, the A38 road prevented any further westward extension.
Hammersmith is used as terminus with a run-around loop. Trains normally proceed from here eastwards without stopping at Butterley railway station which they left a few minutes previously. The location of the terminus allows passengers to cross the causeway over Butterley Reservoir.
There is no public access at this point; passengers are instead advised to use Butterley railway station.
The signal box at Hammersmith was originally at Kilby Bridge in Leicestershire. Built in 1900, it was closed by British Rail on 29 June 1986 and moved to the Centre in August 1986. It was re-erected at Hammersmith in 1987 and commissioned in September 1989. It is a standard Midland Railway type 3B 'box.
There has been some discussion that the line could be extended westwards under the A38 and onto Sawmills as finances allow.
With the home signal in the stop position Ballater signal box awaits it's fate three years after it was last used.
Khlongs are canals in Bangkok: one or two feature regularly scheduled boat service that is part of Bangkok commuting. These are not the big, slow boats that ply the river but instead low sleek runners that tear through the canals at terrific speed! In fact, that 'stops' are often quick bumps at a station: people jump on and off almost simultaneously as the boat races back out into the channel. Needless to say, it's very quick!
Workers stand on the outside edges of the boat to collect fares, assist passengers on and off, and help 'secure' the boat during loading (all ten seconds of it). They walk along the outside edge of the boats while they are running. Two workers (one each side) are on duty during normal times, to tie up the boat and collect fares on their side. This is doubled at rush hour, with one person for each duty on each side.
Here a worker signals forward to the driver: for me it captures some of the speed of the trip. They generally ride hanging on to the edge of the boat as well, standing on the sill. What a fun job; I'm sure it would be banned in the US!
The former signal box closed in 1994 and was denied a dignified end as is was the victim of an arson attack.
The line to the right goes into the exchange sidings still in use today,behind the box is the former station buildings.
1994
A type of tricolor signal not seen much on the Brooklyn Subdivision that once guarded the south switch of Alford. Southern Pacific replaced the searchlights with these tricolor signals at this location after a derailment. Union Pacific has since replaced these tricolor signals, along with all the searchlights, on the Brooklyn Sub with the new vertical LED variety. June 22, 2011.
Pacifastacus leniusculus. This is the North American invasive species. The subject of Crayfish at Fowlmere was discussed in the RSPB forum:-http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/placestovisit/fowlmere/f/12527.aspx
Our native white-clawed crayfish has not been recorded at Fowlmere since 1999.
Wansford signal box stands sentinel over the old Great North Road crossing, providing a warm refuge on a chilly January night.
04-01-2025
Ashwell Signal Box is a fairly typical Midland Railway structure. In this case, it is a Type 4A box opened in 1912.
At CPJ 159, Sinton, Texas, an old Missouri Pacific/MoPac signal stands among the clouds and an array of modern Vader signals around it.
Skegness signal box, which is Listed Grade II, is a Type 1 box of the Great Northern Railway (GNR), the earliest of which appeared in 1872. Type 1 boxes were built of brick or timber and the signal box at Skegness, which is the largest surviving example of its type, was built in 1882 and extended by the addition of an extra bay in 1900 to accommodate a new Railway Signal Co. tappet lever frame.
New signals on Couch St. downtown, including Portland's first ever "pedestrian scramble signal" at 11th and Couch.
A series of views taken from the Southern viaduct between Flinders Street and Spencer Street. Construction commenced about 1975 and was completed 1978. A series of photos from the Dermis collection I have included all available as they may be of interest to someone.
This post has a stop and distant semaphore attached, the distant semaphore is the lower of the two.
The stop signal is set to the "on" position meaning the train must stop, when the stop signal is raised to the "off" position the train can proceed.
The distant signal gives advanced warning of the indication of a stop signal, it works in the same way as the stop signal but gives either a "caution" indication when set to "on" as in this picture or a proceed indication when set to the "off" raised position.
Situated near Gilbey Road crossing on the docks complex
A view of the signals and signal boxes looking north from Leicester station. It doesn't look like this any more!
A full moon has risen in the evening sky as the intermediate signal at MP 50 indicates that all is clear ahead for a northbound several miles distant.
Semaphore signal gantry at the Northampton and Lamport Railway.
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When they told us in the 1989 driver's school at Crewe that most us 'will probably never see a semaphore signal', those of us from the North West fell about laughing! 20 years after leaving the railways and 26 years after that statement, here we are looking at another survivor! Money talks, people mumble - quote from the late 'Stiff Records' label!
Long may they survive!
The main reason for the visit to Barnetby was to get image's of the Semaphore Signals and Signal Boxes before thet are removed over the 2015 Christmas period.
Only a light engine, but the main reason for this shot is Signal BE45 showing in the Off position.
66620 has arrived at Barnetby from the Doncaster direction and is about to drop onto a rake of FLHH coal hoppers passing the bracketed Signal Post. It will work to Immingham later.
8/12/15 at 1519