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Signals on the south face of the disused station - September 1978. The station is now DLR's Stratford High Street.
An eastbound stack train kicks up fresh show as it approaches a high green at West Essex. BNSF is replacing older searchlight style signals across the pass.
Class 'J' 4-8-4 no 611 eastbound, smoking despite the downhill gradient, passes under new signal gantries at Singer, west of Roanoke, Virginia, on the former Norfolk & Western Railroad's main line, with the return leg of an excursion from Radford. 29 May 2017
BNSF 4425 leads a eastbound stack train through Joliet, IL. You can barely make out where this is without the ironic signal bridge standing.
More signals by Welsh's Bridge Box at Inverness. Attempts to photograph trains here were thwarted by cloud - the sun being very intermittent.
KJRY's Santa Train heads west past the abandoned signal in Canton, IL. This is where the former CB&Q Yates City Line once crossed this one on a diamond, which still lies in the weeds just out of view to the right.
Sometimes leaving out the locomotives can really accentuate another element of the scene which is what I tried to accomplish here. So for today's Freight Car Friday here's another take on NS train 11T (loaded double stacked trash containers from Greencastle, PA to Uniontown, AL) with motion blur of the well cars and stacks drawing the eye to the classic CPL signals.
A brief history for those who perhaps aren't familiar. Norfolk Southern's modern day Roanoke District mainline is a historic former Norfolk and Western Railway route that was the original pre merger N&W's outlet to northern markets via connections with the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Western Maryland. Formed in 1870 as the Shenandoah Valley Railroad with financial backing from the PRR the portion of the line from Shephardston to the Shenandoah River opened in 1879 followed by the extension north to Hagerstown in 1880 and south to Roanoke in 1882 marking completion of the 240 mile long route up the valley. Within a few years the company was bankrupt and after several years or legal and financial wrangling it became a part of the growing N&W system and has remained integral to it and its successor to this day.
Per Jeff Hawkins' wonderful site on all things Virginia railroading:
Due to the Pennsylvania Railroad's ownership stake in the N&W, the company began utilizing position light signals in the 1920's. The first position light signals were installed on the Shenandoah Division between Hagerstown and Shenandoah in February 1924. In December 1926 the remaining segment of the line to Roanoke was activated. In the early 1960's the N&W removed the center light and changed the lights around the outer perimeter to color bulbs, hence the term color position light signal.
The train is seen here hustling past the timetable location known as Pkin at MP H165.6 as they leave single track and diverge onto Main 1 for a stretch of double track extending 3.1 miles south to Vesuvius. While most of the CPLs south of here appeared to remain in service I'm not sure how many remain north to Shenandoah and beyond up the Hagerstown District...if any.
Rising beyond is the flank of 3640 ft. Cellar Mountain in the Northern Blue Ridge Mountains in the Saint Mary's Wilderness area of George Washington & Jefferson National Forest.
For a nice concise map of the Roanoke District I again reference Jeff Hawkins' resources:
www.railfanvirginia.com/NS Roanoke.htm
Near unincorporated Steeles Tavern
Augusta County, Virginia
Friday March 29, 2024
These mechanical signals have become rare, replaced by ones that are just lights. I like the old ones, though :-)
This army private sports an embroidered Signal Corps enlisted man's hat patch pinned unconventionally onto the left breast of his shell jacket.
CDV photo by S. Dome & co., Greencastle, Pa.
The principal elements of the Signal Corps badge included a pair of crossed signal flags over the letters "U.S." in old English script. Although not officially adopted by army regulations, the enlisted man's hat badge differed from that of officers in that it did not have an encircling gold wreath enclosing the crossed signal flags, nor did it have a lit torch in the center of the crossed flags. Instead the enlisted man's badge included a field of 13 stars in the space above the crossed flags.
Because it was perceived as being in direct competition to the Military Telegraph Service, the Signal Corps was constituted as a provisional body and not as a permanent branch of the U.S. Army and the use of identifying insignia did not come about until late in the war. Officially, the Signal Corps did not receive permanent status until 1866, a year after the war was over. But by then, its field experience during the war had proved its worth.
Exit signals, Łupków direction, train station in Komańcza (Subcarpathia, Poland).
My grandpa used to have some beehives ca. 4 km from this place. When I was a child we often get a train to came here from Sanok to look after bees. I wish I could turn back the time and take such trip once more.
I'm not sure if the train station is used for passenger traffic anymore. I know there are some trains which are ending the route in Zagórz, about 30 km north from Komańcza.
I'm afraid only irregular cargo trains rearly appear here.
Towcester signal box during demolition.
It's a pity that this unusual box could not have been preserved somewhere but I guess that it would have been too complicated and expensive to move it.
03/07/1965 [GB 1544].
NS 13G with the Wabash heritage unit passes underneath the 10.8 signals at Haysville while 3 different signal indications are shown in the background for eastbounds.
Quiz time: Can you name the 3 signal indications?
Eastbourne signal box on 5th September 2002. It was built in 1882 and was converted to a NX panel power signal box in 1991. The box closed in 2015 when the line was resignalled and control was moved to the signalling centre at Three Bridges.
Rescanned at higher resolution with better colour and image quality
The junction station at St Georges d'Aurac Gare, as at many rural locations in France retained mechanical signalling in 2005 (it may still do so - can anyone confirm ?)
Class X4630 Caravelle units X4646 and X8435 approach a stop signal protecting the end of the passing loop while changing platforms
This North British Type 7 signal box has a Stevens GNP frame (32 levers, 9 still in use) and dates from around 1910
An Amtrak San Diegan heads inbound towards LAUPT on AT&SF trackage near Mission Tower, Los Angeles CA USA circa 1986.
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Class 47/4 47468 passes Llysfaen signal box with the 08:15 Holyhead to Crewe.
Llandulas station was opened at this location by the London & North Western Railway on 1st August 1862. Once a new station for Llandulas was opened further to the east, this somewhat remote station was renamed as Llysfaen. Both passenger and goods services were withdrawn in January 1931. The Saxby & Farmer signal box controlled access to the adjacent sidings used by the ICI quarry and was taken out of use in 1983. In the distance is the Penmaenrhos Tunnel and to the right of the locomotive construction of the North Wales Expressway could be seen in progress.
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This Derby Suburban 3-car unit had worked the 09:32 from Birmingham New Street via Stourbridge Junction to Worcester Shrub Hill. The empty stock was being taken back out of the station to be stabled pending the next allocated duty. Class 116 DMBS 53070 was nearest to the camera.
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The impressive signal box at Aberystwyth, at the terminus of the Cambrian Railways main line. It was built by Signalling Contractors, Dutton & Co. and was to the Type 3 design with roofed landing. It opened in 1893 and contained a frame of 71 levers, soon extended to 78 levers to cope with expansion at the station. When the GWR absorbed the Cambrian Railways system after the 1923 Grouping, they installed a frame of 100 levers of their own manufacture. With rationalisation of the station layout, the box closed on 25th April 1982 and the line was then controlled by 'No Signalman Token' Regulations from Dovey Junction. This was superceded in 1988 by Radio Token Block controlled from Machynlleth. Note the fine concrete post lower quadrant signal on the left. There was a number of these concrete post signals on the former Cambrian Railways system and probably dated from the early days of GWR control. The upper quadrant bracket signal on the right, is much later and dates from the time after the London Midland Region assumed responsibility for the line.
Statesville, NC. March 2022.
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After Edale it was off to Earles arriving at 1050'ish.
A lovely box, it's looks spoilt by it's flat roof which like Great Rocks is the result of a fire .
Absolute block both ways again and here there's an IB section in both directions.
The box and sidings opened in 1929 with the opening of the cement works located at the end of the branch.
The narrower centres and the location of the frame in the back of the box give a clue to it's more recent heritage.
Not a lot has changed here over the years, the IB's were introduced to counteract closures of boxes at Norman's Bank (towards Edale) and Hope / Bamford. The box diagram is dated 1982 and is very little altered. A busier box than it's Grade 3 neighbors on each side it is thus a 4.
The cement works were developed by G & T Earle and thus surely the Earles should have an apostrophe but it hasn't ??
Some details of the branch and it's history here...
sinfin.net/railways/hope/index.html
Earles Sidings Signal Box.
11.01 on Wednesday 6th May 2015.
at the gloswarks railway manor class 4-6-0 7820 dinmore manor draws forward from it's train at toddington --framed by a pair of typical great western signals
I was delighted when my first posting as a signalman took me away from station located boxes - which is where my first two locations were. Mainly due to when the station was unstaffed, you were the focal point of passenger enquiries....and the person for them to vent their spleen if a train was late or cancelled!
I'm pretty sure Helsby would have been the same until the staircase cage was erected....
Sure enough, the signals were lit for a southbound manifest to come barreling down the Superior Sub. I don't really relish posting these grim reminders of what the weather will be in a month or two but if I skip them I may never come back to them.
The Ladysmith depot is seen in the background. For many decades the depot looked out over a diamond. Approximately 5 cars back is where the east-west mainline crossed the Superior Sub. For the first couple decades it was that route, the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Sainte Marie mainline between Minneapolis and the "Soo" passing through here solo before a diamond was put in. Rails still lead in 4 directions from Ladysmith but the old Soo is missing some lengthy stretches, having a straight rail route through Ladysmith was no longer needed. It's the relatively younger WC Superior Extension that has become the busy corridor. It's likely the traffic over both lines at their peak didn't match what travels the Superior Sub each day now. November 27, 2023.
Woods at Signal Mountain near Chattanooga, Tennessee. Located in the eastern part of the state on the Cumberland Plateau. The city is surrounded by gorges, mountains and beautiful countryside. It has been experiencing a revitalization lately.
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English Electric type 4, D276 arrives at Inverkeithing Station with the Whitsun 1967 Grand Scottish Tour. It had started off at Edinburgh before heading across the Forth Bridge to Fife. From here where we joined, it travelled over the Glenfarg line to Perth, then reversed and continued on to Glasgow and Ayr. Halina 35X.
Richard William Wright (28 July 1943 - 15 September 2008) was a self-taught pianist and keyboardist best known for his long career with Pink Floyd. Though not as prolific a songwriter as his bandmates Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and David Gilmour, he wrote significant parts of the music for classic albums such as Meddle, Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here, as well as for Pink Floyd's final studio album The Division Bell. Wright’s richly textured keyboard layers were a vital ingredient and a distinctive characteristic of Pink Floyd's sound. In addition, Wright frequently sang background and occasionally lead vocals onstage and in the studio with Pink Floyd (most notably on the songs "Time", "Echoes", and on the Syd Barrett composition "Astronomy Domine").
(Storm signal is a song from the double studio album ummagumma)
Figure is a 40th Anniversary GI Joe Sailor.
The Only post-processing of photo is slight cropping.
Flare was made with a small flashlight covered with a red candy wrapper and a 25 second exposure.
Eye candy for a rather important talk I'm about to give.
Animated version below (give it time to load).
Baty. C, [Censored] AA, 4th Armored Division, 23 February, 1945.
Photographer: T/5 Samuel Gilbert, 166th Signal Photo Co.
Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive.
Amtrak New Orleans bound Cresent lead EMD F40PHR locomotive # 262 is bing uncoupled from the train at the Peachtree Station platform in Altanta, Georgia, May 1983. At this time, the Crescent is being reduced in size prior to continuing to New Orleans. In the background on the upper level you can see the old Peachtree Station building that is used with the plaforms seen below. Much highway and new building construction was occurring in this area during this time period. You can see by the haze in the background that this was a hot day. In the foreground you can see the old out of service station platform roadway overpass bridge.
Southern Pacific GP9 No. 3188 splits the searchlight signals at Brisbane with train No. 143, on May 2, 1981.
These old searchlight signals date back to 1942, when the longest block (171 miles) of CTC controlled by one location ( Las Vegas, NV) was installed between Las Vegas NV and Yermo CA. The area saw 50+ trains per day not including all the light helper moves and CTC fixed the problems of hours of delays.
Protecting the west end of Ivanpah CA, they are to be replaced this spring...
The eastern-most signal bridge at Hoffman (top photo) along the bluffs got knocked down during the morning of September 22nd. My completely uniformed speculation is that the panel track in the gondola (bottom photo) was too tall and clipped it. Sad to see these searchlights come down, as CP was taking their sweet time to upgrade them.