Gladstone Branch #481 entering the Bernardsville Interlocking

Interlock pool surround and patio

November 14, 2014

Brooklyn, NY

My grandfather, looking dignified but telling dirty jokes

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Interlock pathway and garden curbing

CJ Anderson Interlock

I've missed my Geomag...

This whole thing is standing up on a 1x1x1 Geomag rod base. it's heavy as fuck too, so you have to be very very wary of the polarity of each rod when building it.

This guy was made with 72 silver rods, and a combination of all of my Geomag premium, sets:

Desire: pink, light pink and purple

Earth: brown, creme, lime green

Urban: black, grey, white

Ocean: navy, sky blue, white

There are a few royal blue geomags at the base, because i didn't have quite enough to make this thing without them.

The Best $30 i've spent so far for 08. Did a great job of organizing my belongings.

Redesign of the University of Houston interlocking UH mark in celebration for Tier One recognition. by Dennis Nuon

Cedar deck and stair case

Circa 1994.

Manual Interlocking at clayburn where the SRY (BC Hydro) crosses the CPR. The rods in the foreground lead from four large levers in the control shack out to four different semaphore signals which govern the movement of trains and engines across the diamond thru the interlocking.

Door on building PE3-4Y

Caution Controled Area

Caution Radioactive Material Area

Caution Building Equipped with an Automatic Lighting System Lights May Turn off Automaticly.

Caution Flammable Gas Storage Behind Building

Enclosure Interlocked

Magnet Power On

Beam Enabled

Beam Disabled

See it on my website www.MichaelKappel.com

Lisle, IL, October 9, 2010

NS SD60E #6963 (Go Rail) leads NS Train #224 through the maze of switches and diamonds at SH Interlocking/TRRA Madison in Venice, IL on June 6, 2015.

Where the CPR M&O subdivision crossed the CAR/GTR/CNR Hammond sundivision

Railroad and signal maintenance , Just a friendly word of advice.

there are few parts in which during restoration when its impossible to dissemble .

Time.

taking care and taking Time is far superior in restorations without rushing and persuading parts to free up.

Want to screw up a nice antique.. rush and pursued parts with a sledge hammer and compound the abuse with over heating.

Low heat and penetrant letting penetrant take the time to do the work is a big plus.

High heat: anything over 200 degrees most times unnecessary

Mechanical interlocking parts are made with malleable, hardened and cast iron parts.

So knowing what your doing will save you from damage the cranks are malleable heated they will dent and deform with repeated blows they will deform regardless of heat being used.

Pins and cotter pins are hardened steel.

the link is hammer forged and the crank and compensator frame is cast iron which will crack if impacted .

Semaphore bearings . I saw a site where a man use a gas torch set up on a semaphore bearing

in a restoration attempt. ***CRINGE!*** A semaphore bearing case is cast iron and can crack if heated . the spectacle shaft is steel . and crank is malleable iron the shaft is supported

by two red brass bearings.

The lubricant used decades ago maybe gone and dried up but its a fair bet introducing a penetrant and low heat and repeating this processes many times and letting parts soak with a penetrant is far kinder on aging metals.

as well as rubber mallets or loaded plastic type.

Basically its called TIME and patience..your antique artifacts will thank you.

you can see the simflex brickstop put to good use - as a curve layout tool it kicks ass. Much better than using a hose.

This sculpture in the central courtyard of Deakin University (Waurn Ponds), called 'Interlock 1979', was donated anonomously in 1981. The sculptor was Margel Hinder assisted by her husband Frank. It was fabricated by Keith Jackson. Margel was born in New York and moved to Australia with her Australian husband in 1934. She died in 1995.

Other examples of her work can be found at Martin Place, Sydney, the University of Sydney and Woden Town Centre, ACT.

The asymmetrical nature of her work encourages us to walk around it to see all of its form.

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Inca stonework - mortar is for wimps!

Interlock driveway, and front step

I'm sure glad that I paid attention to cabooses over the years

Rochelle IL / N 11th St

BN e/b piggyback

Caboose

Hammered and textured copper washers.

recycled wallpaper sample + template + scissors = shmancy envelope!

Here it is entirely open

In Knitty, Fall 2008!

There is a fifth lever, which was set the opposite way to these. This is (from memory) E Frame.

Siempre que veo mis Typefaces favoritas en algún lugar pienso “Le voy a sacar una foto y la voy a subir a Flickr” debido a mi eterna enemistad con las cámaras digitales nunca lo hago, pero ahora prometo que lo voy a hacer.

¿Vieron a quien pillé en el Publimetro?

Claro que si, a la maravillosa Interlock del super-genial Ed Benguiat, precisamente no la usaron en Publimetro, sino que son las pancartas de Peta Europa en contra de la corrida de Toros en Pamplona, España.

Empty shopping carts that are full of themselves at the same time that they are empty. Locked into that type of mindset. Thus the title, "Interlocked."But the sun is shining brightly on the carts which gives hope to this situation.