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During my time living in Indiana, many a trip was made to this pair of semaphores on the south end of the Monon Subdivision on the CSX.

 

Most of my stuff was captured on film and old school video and getting that stuff onto Flickr is a WHOLE OTHER project!!

 

However, these semaphores did manage to make it to the digital age (for me) and I was able to grab a shot of some pretty new (at the time) CSX power passing by.

 

-CSX AC60CWs #5004, #617 leading power

-CSX train Q643

-CSX Monon Sub, MP 133.2

-County Road W 1200 S Crossing, S of Romney, IN

-June 16, 2002

 

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Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, is seen passing semaphores near Wagon Mound, New Mexico as it races across the prairie.

 

I was in Denver for a week and opted to take a day to drive to New Mexico to shoot these last few surviving semaphores, knowing their futures are uncertain and that they could be removed at any time. The signals at the north end of the siding these signals protect had already been replaced with "Vader" signals!

 

As of 9/8/21, I can confirm semaphores still stand at the following four locations:

35.390427, -105.331232 (single-track block)

36.015705, -104.701948 (end of siding)

36.043010, -104.692712 (single-track block)

36.073125, -104.688506 (end of siding, pictured)

I believe I saw at least one other location while racing from Wagon Mound to Bernal, but I don't recall precisely where.

 

Amtrak 3(8): the Southwest Chief

Wagon Mound, NM

BR Standard Class 4 locomotive arriving at Bury Bolton Street Station from Heywood. In the bay were 2890 and 52322 which were due out an hour later.

857 leaving Elston loop with its fine example of semaphore signals.

HST Set 253041 enters Newton Abbot and passes the West Signal Box and some of its associated signals in August 1986

Newton Abbot has to be the pick of the stations [for me at least] in Devon for it's collection of signals. Whilst Exeter was perhaps busier I always found NA to be a delight.

On one occasion [1978 I think] a small group of us were invited over by the 'shed' supervisor to come and have a look around, this had coincided with a visit by a pair of class40's visiting.

LNER Seabanks Signal Box - North Eastern Railway 1906 - a Non Block Post after Closure near Dawdon Colliery on 2nd August 1987

 

Copyright Robin Stewart-Smith - All Rights Reserved

I guess the time's up for lower quadrant semaphore signals in Jamalpur.

A small collection of Etsy avatars, each reduced to only 4 x 4 pixels (then magnified for study). They are normally 75 x 75 pixels. For many avatars, this is just enough for recognition. I might be crazy, but I love to stare at them.

 

What's best is that each one represents a genuine creative person somewhere in the world.

 

Many, many more.

75078 leaves Damems Loop with the 13:15 from Keighley. 21/11/2015.

A visual for what's to come in blade territory?

There can't be many places on the network where you can get 8 lower quadrant semaphores in a single shot but a wide sweep at Crewe Junction Shrewsbury manages to encompass that exact amount. 66512 (not 421!) can be seen approaching from the Crewe direction with 4V20 Fiddlers Ferry power station to East Usk Yard, empty coal.

16-2-91 Great Rocks Jct

47449 light engine Tunstead quarry to Buxton

 

Konica 200

A Westbound D&H freight passes the semaphore that stood at the grade crossing in Burns, NY on September 30, 1979.

Pulling into the new platform on the Cob at Porthmadog, 19.9.14

Semaphore Foreshore, Adelaide South Australia.

Looking west at Gilberdyke Junction on 25 October 2018 with the line to Selby straight ahead on the right. Entering stage left from the Goole direction is 142062 forming 2R51, Northern’s 1030 Sheffield – Hull.

078 is seen with empties for Tara Mines passing through Navan Station, this branch still has semaphore signals

7.10.2023.

There can't be many locations where an LNER Azuma meets semaphore signalling these days?

 

LNER Class 800 'Azuma' No 800206 with a five coach set approaches the semaphores at Swinderby with 1B87, the 15.27 Lincoln - LKX Saturday passenger service.

45305 puts on a fine show as the early morning mist and cloud clears departing Loughborough on the Great central Railway

9/2022 - Belen, NM

The first order of business after leaving the airport in the waning sunlight of day one was to check out ATSF EMC motorcar M190. Semaphores are on display with the motorcar.

NR92, NR106, NR23 lead 5BM4 through Mittagong.

 

The semaphore signal visible is one of three semaphores remaining at Mittagong. The signal was used to authorise down trains into the now removed up refuge.

 

The disused brick platform visible on the left was the dock platform.

 

Mittagong, NSW.

 

Friday 3 July 2020.

24 November 2015. Semaphore South Australia

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60040 storms towards Barnetby Station working a Santon - Immmingham empty ore train.

Flew out halfway with the DJI Phantom and snapped this shot. Shot this in the morning so was pretty peaceful not having anyone come up and ask me about the Phantom hah!

 

DJI Phantom 3 Advanced No ND filters @ 40 ft

Reality So Subtle pinhole 6x12 camera

Fuji Neopan Acros 100s

Kodak HC-110 developper

Great Western Railway Class 166 No. 166214 arrives at Worcester Shrub Hill with 2O80, the 14:41 Great Malvern – Weymouth service on 5th March 2020.

This piece is based on an old design that I liked and thought deserved another outing because who doesn't like skull headed dominatrix types waving flags around?

 

Wondering where I could take the picture I started doing a little internet research on flags and it wasn't long before I was reading about flag semaphore which, as I'm sure we're all aware, is a telegraphy system for conveying information at a distance by means of visual signals with hand-held flags. With this in mind I endeavour to find out what my flag wielding lunatic was trying to say and it would seem all she could do was the letter 'N' over and over again. If she was trying to tell me something I'm not 100% sure what it is. Maybe I'll try and teach her some more and see if we can't get something more eloquent forthcoming...

 

Cheers

 

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Details. Something that makes a train diorama alive. I always try to use them to highlight the context. Here - industrial installation. Cannot wait to see 5 or 6 of them in a line.

 

The upper arm is operated with a lever on the base of the semaphore. Lower arm and shunting signal is changed by hand.

 

Yes, light signals would be much easier to build and way easier to operate, even remotely. I decided to go for mechanical signals just because of the old school look taking the cost of very, very limited operating capabilities during a show.

10/2020 - Colmer, NM

Close-up look at the retired semaphore mechanism and lamp at 712.

Adelaida, AUSTRÀLIA 2023

Sibinuang passenger train from Padang when passing a Padang old semaphore signal.

Signal PR52 at Par Station, soon to be removed. Showing some signs of weathering, though last time it had some work stainless steel nuts and bolts seem to have been used, a good choice.

9f class locomotive 92212 at Ramsbottom on the East Lancs Railway

The 1W96 rolls into Platform 3 , 47 minutes late after an all day problem at Rossett, between Wrexham and Chester.,due to a track circuit problem, resulting in a pilotman for every train.

60054 rounds the bend at Wrawby Jct with the Kingsbury-Humber empty oil tanks, 23.9.15.

Henschel DHG1000BB(BB 303) diesel locomotive shunting the KKBW freight wagons at the Padang railway station.

Soon to disappear under the re-signalling and electrification scheme between Preston and Blackpool, the fine array of surviving semaphore signals controlled by Blackpool North No.2 signal-box will soon be history. The 2E84 12:21 Blackpool North to Huddersfield Northern service with 142054 on the rear departs on Tuesday 7th February 2017.

 

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Pakistan Railways, 16 January 1991.

 

Scanned from a slide taken by the late David Eatwell, now in my collection.

This was taken by Robert W. McQuown and labeled 1953 and the trees are full so I would say it's summertime. I don't know much about Hoopeston tower, other than th C&EI crossed the NKP (LE&W) line and had a Union Station located in the S/W quadrant of the diamond (at left in photo). The tower was located in the N/E quadrant. This is photo 2 of 2 taken at Hoopeston on this day. The 1st shot was taken in the tower. This view looks north.

 

In this photo, a man is seen walking across the C&EI tracks towards the depot. It's possible that he is heading back to his train, as the eastbound NKP T.O. signal shows a stop and receive orders indication. Also in the distance on the southbound track is a crew that is switching. Both train order signals for the C&EI and the NKP and the southbound C&EI home signal made the photo, all of which are semaphores.

 

A great story about this location was told by Robert McQuown in a article he wrote in the C&EI Flyer:

 

"Hoopeston tower was on the lowest point on the NKP (LE&W) between 2 ascending hills east and west of Hoopeston. We always said that the NKP ran on smoke signals here as the block system was, when you saw an engine smoking toward you from either hilltop, you better make plans to line up the crossing..."

 

C&EI Hoopeston, Illinois tower

Crossing of the NKP (nee-LE&W)

1953?

Photo and all information Robert W. McQuown

Courtesy of the C&EIHS, Danville Chapter

Outside the Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris.

A dmu heads north from Leicester on 4th May 1985

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