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1 Puddle Dock in the City of London is a 1970s concrete office block by Blackfriars Station. Its interior has recently been refurbished.
After wrapping up my chase of the Union Pacific at Itasca then catching CN L564 I headed off in search of BNSF action for the afternoon and boy did they deliver flushing 4 westbound trains out of Superior on the Lakes Sub in the span of an hour. Throw in a work train and an opposing westbound coal train and I just couldn't get them all!
The BNSF is the other behemoth in the Twin Ports owing to it's Great Northern and Northern Pacific legacy. In addition to countless unit coal and grain trains and a healthy manifest business the BNSF also serves the Iron Ore trade through its ex GN ore dock at Allouez. They generally run 2 to 3 trains in a 24 hr period serving Cleveland-Cliffs Hibbing Taconite plant (Hibtac) and US Steel's Keewatin Taconite plant (Keetac) each of which ship out around 6 million tons of iron ore pellets a year.
Not as busy and nowhere near as popular as CN's ex Missabe ore operations, most visiting fans eschew BNSF's ore trains. Though they use run of the mill power they are still a unique operation by Class 1 standards with their captive fleet of ore gons many of which are still adorned with large Burlington Northern logos. Here is one such train, UALLKEE2 03T, with 180 empties from Allouez headed up to Keetac in the Iron Range just getting started on its 102 mile run to the mine via the Allouez, Lakes, and Casco Subdivisions. They are seen here at about MP 10 of the former in this view looking down off MN Route 35 overpass nears Saunders Junction. As soon as they pass beneath me they'll hang a left onto the Lakes Sub then sail over CN's Superior Sub at the busy interlocking that sees trains from all four area Class. In fact, excepting CN's ore trains to the docks in Duluth every single road train in and out of the area must pass through Saunders in one of five directions. The quarter century old C44-9W dressed in BNSF's second paint scheme (H2 as it's colloquially known) was a nice surprise.
Town of Superior, Wisconsin
Thursday September 12, 2024
Seen from 9th Street in East St. Louis, IL, Savatrans LLC (SVTX) ES44AC #1982 leads NS train 430 past closed Pennsy "VI" Tower, known in later years on Conrail, and while being operated by the Gateway Eastern, i.e. KCS, as Willows Tower.
The 430 completed loading the day prior at the "Shay" mine near Macoupin, IL and is on its way down the V&C Belt. It will connect with the NS Southern-West District at the west end of Coapman siding. From there, it will take NS to a connection with the Evansville Western (EVWR) just east of Mt Vernon, then down to the AB Brown power plant near Evansville, IN.
This power set, consisting of SVTX 1982, 1986 and 1912, painted and numbered to commemorate Penn State's football championships, made only two runs on NS before returning to its traditional route on EVWR.
The large interlocking that protected the crossing between Conrail and Grand Trunk in South Bend, Indiana was controlled from a 304-lever GRS Model 5 electric interlocking machine installed during the late Thirties. The plant was once known as "HF", but during Conrail years became known as "Bend."
This was one of the last large power machines installed, and this period was a swan song for the era of power interlocking machines. Even as this massive machine was being put together, the signal companies were devising more compact all-relay interlocking machines, along with the "entrance-exit" flavor of machine that simplified route setting into the act of pushing two buttons, with the circuitry doing the rest.
BNSF's V-BLUCLO1-04 heads west under the searchlight signals at Edelstein on the former Santa Fe. CREX ES44AC 1330 leads
CSX Q406 was passing underneath the classic B&O signals at Carroll interlocking in 1993.
GP40-2 6241 was leading an SD40-2 and a former Family Lines C30-7 through the Baltimore Terminal on the way to Philadelphia.
Elmont is a rather peculiar station, being built (during the pandemic, mind you) smack-dab in the middle of QUEENS interlocking. I'm not complaining - the sightlines speak for themselves! Here's a peek at the regular hustle and bustle of rush hour at this unique location.
As forseen a while ago now a reedit with the fitting studs of the medium brick.
OH, how much I love these new tiles, a long overdue finishing part.
I rebuilt YO tower to include a train order semaphore in addition to its mechanical interlocking machine. It is equipped to operate both mechanical semaphores and electric signals at a 1x2 track diamond crossing. Previous incarnations were too complex to travel easily. This re-design aims to build a simple and transportable moc that will showcase the lego interlocking machine and mechanical semaphore signals
The former railroad interlocking tower in Union City, Indiana, rolls down West Pearl Street on dollies to its new home in a city park. The community raised more than $56,000 to match a state grant of $50,000t to pay the expense of moving the two-story brick structure about a block west of its original location. CSX has threatened to raze the tower if the community failed to pay to move it.
An eastbound from New York navigates the crossover at Babylon Interlocking, just moments from its final station stop.
this is the first of two interlockings I am building to fit with the OhioLug layouts. This one is built so it can be packed up and set up tabletop with minimal hassle. Power for the signals is centralized in the cabinet next to the far right signal.
Southbound CSO-1 on the Cedar Hill yard lead at Cedar Interlocking in North Haven. Once the train arrives in the yard it will interchange with CSX local B747.
An inbound Port Washington Branch train passes under the Pennsy PL's at the west end of BAY Interlocking, about to arrive at Bayside Station.
M7 (Bombardier, 1999-2006)
Bayside Station
Port Washington Branch - LIRR
The Pocono turn passes the tower in East Straudsburg and heads back to Scranton after dropping cars at the paper mill in Delaware Water Gap. Built in 1908, the East Stroudsburg Railroad Tower stands near the corner of Lackawanna and Analomink Streets in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. The tower is the last remaining DL&W wood railroad tower in Pennsylvania (and perhaps on the entire railroad), and still contains the original mechanical interlocking machine. In its glory days, as part of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, the tower contained 37 levers(which can still be seen in the windows) and controlled the switches and signals on the main tracks between Broad Street and Federal Street. As late as 1958, there were seven passenger trains a day in each direction past the East Stroudsburg tower, and many more freight trains. Now, traffic passes through here only a couple of times a week on average.
An eastbound B&O manifest runs parallel to Amtrak's Northeast Corridor at F Interlocking in Washington, DC.
Workers from Wolfe House & Building Movers go about their duties in Union City, Indiana, at the new site for the town's railroad interlocking tower. The tower was moved about a block west of its original site to a location in a city park known as Artisan Crossing. Closed in 1968, the tower once guarded the crossing of New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroad lines.