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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.
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Amtrak Veterans NPCU 90221 leads a Hiawatha East past the tri light signals at North Glenview. Glenview, IL
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!
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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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A fairly recent addition to the signalling at Peterborough is signal P437, it controls the northbound exit to platform 2, mainly for use by East Midlands Train services to Spalding and Lincoln. It's easily distinguishable by the fact it's an LED, rather than standard colour light. Behind it, on platform 3b (ironically!) is EMT dogbox 153311 with the 1511 Peterborough-Lincoln Central. 16 January 2010.
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
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A young daughter learns to signal for a tricycle and taxi while her mother holds her hand and coaches her on the hand signal. Baguio, Philippines.
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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.
UP 8663, 7051, & 8522 lead UP's Denver to Pueblo manifest southbound on another smoky Colorado day.
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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
May 26, 2018: A pair of BNSF GE engines (Dash 9-44CW, C44-9W), with the leader sporting the old Santa Fe Warbonnet paint scheme, pull CSX empty phosphate train K811 (Cicero, IL-Winston, FL) by the signals at Emerson, GA on the CSX W&A Subdivision.
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.
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.
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!
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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.
One day while we were visiting Colorado, we went outside of town and took the tour of the Old Hundred Gold Mine. We were lucky to have a guide that worked the mines in the Silverton area and was very knowledgeable about the mining processes in this area. This is a picture of how the miners communicated to each other on the different levels of the mine. There is quite a list of different signals for them to memorize to know what was being requested.
This mine was founded in the late 1800s, but it was never profitable according to what I read. They did find gold here, but the ore ran out after a few years, and the mine changed ownership a few times over time. Now you can ride down into the mine in real mine car and see how things were done 100 years ago. I always thought these mines started at the top on worked down to the gold. Wrong, they started at the base of the mountain and tried to follow a vein up to the top of the mountain. They would use gravity to get the ore to fall down into the shafts where they could take the ore back down to be processed. Pretty dangerous work, but very profitable when it worked.
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)
I came across this photo in a folder from last year. Decided I liked this crop better than what I had previous uploaded eighteen months ago. I hear that this signal is not long for this world, in fact it may very well already be scrap. That's sad. Sandcut is a magical spot, though, and no trip to Tehachapi is complete without spending a few hours here.
Another angle of the Blackpool North semaphores and No.2 signalbox, with the 1U65 12:40 to Manchester Airport departing on 7th February 2017 (156452 on the rear). The cast iron lamp post is a remarkable survivor, and there are also a number of them remaining in the carriage/DMU sidings on the up side. This scene will be totally transformed by the end of the year.
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