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NS 1832 leads manifest 14N eastbound along the NS Bayard Line, as it passes the PRR signals in East Liverpool, OH.
The none tone mapped version of the sunrise this morning at Signal Hill. This is the Quidi Vidi side of the hill.
The signal is a modern lightweight signal based on a flat panel design containing LEDs to show each of the three colour aspects. These are becoming increasingly common in the UK as older signalling is renewed. The smaller black tile represents the signal identification plate.
Also shown is the signalpost telephone. In the past these phones would have been mounted directly onto the signalpost itself, but the modern standard is to have them separate with a walkway and rail for protection.
A restricting signal (often termed a switching signal by crews) is displayed for CN 536, which is working between the non-CTC Valleyfield Sub and the CTC Kingston Sub (Marche à Vue in French). This signal serves almost as a small interlocking location located within the Coteau Junction plant. A train can pass on either side of this signal and it will keep displaying this red over yellow aspect. Thanks to Lorence Toutant for help with the caption.
Statesville, NC. March 2022.
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Signal cabin at high level - Balham to East/West Croydon line in foreground at Streatham Common station - 27.8.78
Semaphore signals at Bridlington. These are among the last semaphores in East Yorkshire, Bridlington is for now a little oasis of mechanical signalling amid a sea of colour lights. However, the mechanical equipment is on borrowed time, with remodelling and resignalling due in the autumn of 2021 when Bridlington South Signal Box will see it's lever frame and IFS panel replaced by a brand new panel covering all its functions.
bigtrainslittletrains.com/2021/03/17/east-yorkshires-last...
Wilmslow signal box located alongside between the Down Main line (in front of the signal box) and the Down Styal line at the south end of Wilmslow railway station
Wilmslow signal box was a British Railways London Midland Region non standard design, one of three similar signal boxes built in connection with the Crewe to Manchester 25kV overhead electrification. It was built by EB Jones and opened fitted with a Westinghouse Brake & Signal Company Limited one control switch panel on 26th June 1959 under stage 2 of the resignalling between Crewe and Cheadle Hulme, replacing Chelford Loop, Chelford Station, Chelford Sidings, Alderley Edge, Wilmslow Station, and Handford Sidings signal boxes. The signal box was closed at 01:30 on 10th December 2005 and demolished within a month during upgrading of the line between Crewe and Cheadle Hulme, officially closing on 19th June 2006 when signalling controlled by Manchester South Signalling Control Centre was commissioned
Ref no BT/00782
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.
This is the female common whitetail. Like the 12 spotted skimmer it has three brown bands on each wing but no blue bands. The abdomen is brown but instead of a steady yellow stripe there are pretty blue brown rimmed patches. There are little yellow spots on the inside of each eye. I doubt they are turn signals but they may be eye spots.
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
45699 'Galatea' (as 45627 'Sierra Leonne') coasts down grade towards Settle Junction, with 'The Waverley', 1Z39 16:30 Carlisle to York, on Sunday 20th August 2023.
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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.
Wilmslow signal box located alongside between the Down Main line (in front of the signal box) and the Down Styal line at the south end of Wilmslow railway station
Wilmslow signal box was a British Railways London Midland Region non standard design, one of three similar signal boxes built in connection with the Crewe to Manchester 25kV overhead electrification. It was built by EB Jones and opened fitted with a Westinghouse Brake & Signal Company Limited one control switch panel on 26th June 1959 under stage 2 of the resignalling between Crewe and Cheadle Hulme, replacing Chelford Loop, Chelford Station, Chelford Sidings, Alderley Edge, Wilmslow Station, and Handford Sidings signal boxes. The signal box was closed at 01:30 on 10th December 2005 and demolished within a month during upgrading of the line between Crewe and Cheadle Hulme, officially closing on 19th June 2006 when signalling controlled by Manchester South Signalling Control Centre was commissioned
Ref no BT/00781
A place i've passed through many many times on the trains but until today have never been to and that is Culgaith on the Settle & Carlisle line.
Culgaith Station signal box opened Jan 1880 and was replaced on the 4th Oct 1908 this Midland Railway type 4a design.
5th September 2023