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These are the three semaphores at the west siding switch at Levy, New Mexico. The Raton Line is BNSF, historic AT&SF track and presently used by the Southwest Chief, Amtrak Trains 3 and 4. This sequence shows signals responding to the approach of westbound number 3, the train passing through the signals and then the signals clearing. The semaphore protecting the west end of the siding is always in stop position.
Number 3's head end is passing the east facing semaphore, the westbound blade continues to drop.
Celebrated Australia Day at Semaphore on the Foreshore (9.30pm fireworks display over the beach from the Jetty).
Canon 5D, 24-70
2015
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ND filter and long Exposure
Straight from St Pancras to the Peaks via Sheffield. A couple hours walking on the moor before meeting an old friend at the Fox.
iPhone 4S takes a reasonable photo in good light. It's a company phone, otherwise I would not own it.
On Telegraph Hill, Ockham Common; Built in1822 - one of 15 towers linking Whitehall with the naval base in Portsmouth, but replaced by 1847 with electric telegraph.
Skilled semaphore operators could relay a message the 92 miles between London and Portsmouth in 45 seconds.
this is the largest carousel in Australia, built in Adelaide in the early 1920s.
Semaphore, South Australia
Semaphore signal gantry on the approach into Swanwick Junction station, Midland Railway Centre. 27/01/2014.