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| Title: |
Pennsy heritage |
| Description: |
The signals at the east end of Nostrand Av give away their heritage, seen from the head end of a Jamaica bound train. Thats Atlantic Av down below, which the train will ride above for several miles til it goes back underground again for the remainder of the trip to Queens. It will surface at Dunton tower, adjacent to Morris Park shops. |
| Photo Date: |
11/17/1977 Upload Date: 12/13/2016 4:13:28 AM |
| Location: |
Brooklyn, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Track |
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150 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Points of light |
| Description: |
Not Ronald Reagans thousand points of light, just three from the Pennsy position light signal immediately west of the Little Neck Parkway crossing on the Port Washington Branch. The amber lights cut through the gloom of a late season snow quite effectively, demonstrating the wisdom of using such hardware for a critical safety function. |
| Photo Date: |
3/14/1981 Upload Date: 11/27/2016 4:59:34 AM |
| Location: |
Little Neck, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Night,Signal |
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105 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Diamond |
| Description: |
One of the many diamonds then existing at State Line interlocking in Hammond Indiana |
| Photo Date: |
10/9/1982 Upload Date: 4/24/2013 1:21:23 AM |
| Location: |
Hammond, IN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Track |
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356 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
High green for Matteson |
| Description: |
High green on the IC electric line at Homewood. Note the former IC station to the right. |
| Photo Date: |
10/9/1982 Upload Date: 4/24/2013 1:30:45 AM |
| Location: |
Hammond, IN |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger |
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270 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
New signal bridge |
| Description: |
When the electrification was extended to Matawan, the signals were upgraded, replacing the old CNJ style that had been on the line up to that point. This is the new signal bridge just beyone South Amboy. |
| Photo Date: |
9/19/1983 Upload Date: 8/2/2014 2:47:20 AM |
| Location: |
South Amboy, NJ |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal |
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323 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
All at stop |
| Description: |
The east end of Queens interlocking as seen from Bellerose station. The LIRR was the last to use the PRR position lights in their original configuration, and there were many different aspects. Here we see one aspect on all four tracks: stop. |
| Photo Date: |
11/17/1983 Upload Date: 11/28/2013 12:58:23 AM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Night,Signal,Track |
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241 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Clear on track one |
| Description: |
The east end of Queens interlocking shows clear for a westbound on the Main Line |
| Photo Date: |
11/17/1983 Upload Date: 11/28/2013 12:59:40 AM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Night,Signal,Track |
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236 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Wig wag |
| Description: |
Once common in America, by the 1980s these wig wag signals had become unusual. This one was still in service on the BN in Superior Neb. |
| Photo Date: |
10/9/1984 Upload Date: 7/10/2014 2:22:16 AM |
| Location: |
Superior, NE |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Signal |
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336 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Old rail |
| Description: |
This rail was on one of the yard tracks at Montauk on the Long Island. It was 60 years old then. Wonder if its still in place. |
| Photo Date: |
1/21/1986 Upload Date: 10/17/2014 4:06:48 AM |
| Location: |
Montauk, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Track |
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244 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Color position lights |
| Description: |
A classic B&O signal is silhouetted against a late summer sky at Point of Rocks MD. Thirty years later, these would become rare as PTC forced updates in signal hardware, dooming the more interesting systems such as on the B&O, N&W and Pennsy. |
| Photo Date: |
9/12/1986 Upload Date: 12/12/2014 2:26:03 AM |
| Location: |
Point of Rocks, MD |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal |
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209 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Work in progress |
| Description: |
The east end of Great Neck station on the Port Washington Branch is seeing some changes. The steel work is up for a new signal bridge, which will control the interlocking just beyond the platforms. The configuration at the time of the photo is two tracks going to single, then a switch leading to a pocket track. The new set up will be track 2, the eastbound track, going straight into the pocket, and a set of crossovers to facilitate moves in and out, as well as for trains going from 2 to 1 to continue east, the arrangement that is currently in place. |
| Photo Date: |
9/23/1986 Upload Date: 12/13/2014 4:35:38 AM |
| Location: |
Great Neck, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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242 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Against a blue sky |
| Description: |
Signal 308-2, one of the many Erie semaphores then in use on the Southern Tier, is contrasted against a deep blue sky on a rare sunny day in the Tier. |
| Photo Date: |
6/18/1987 Upload Date: 5/3/2015 4:29:58 AM |
| Location: |
Rathbone, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal |
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222 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Clean machine |
| Description: |
This switch machine appears to have been freshly serviced and painted. |
| Photo Date: |
9/6/1987 Upload Date: 5/26/2015 4:05:27 AM |
| Location: |
Dorval, QC |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Track |
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112 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
The secret is out |
| Description: |
Jim Boyd, at the time, editor of Railfan magazine, would speak at length on subjects photographic. Now we know how he really did it. For those too young to know: Fotomat was a processing service that had small kiosks in parking lots all over the northeast at least, maybe other places as well. You dropped your film off, they sent it to the lab, you got it back a week or so later. This sticker was on a D&H relay case on Belden Hill. |
| Photo Date: |
9/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/27/2015 3:46:27 AM |
| Location: |
Belden Hill, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station |
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252 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Main Line bridge |
| Description: |
A look along the B&O main from the Harpers Ferry station. View is across the Potomac to the tunnel on the Maryland side. |
| Photo Date: |
10/24/1987 Upload Date: 6/12/2015 4:36:01 AM |
| Location: |
Harpers Ferry, WV |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge |
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218 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Shenandoah Division |
| Description: |
Just out of the Harpers Ferry tunnel, the Shenandoah Division diverges, taking its own bridge over the Potomac. This is the view toward the tunnel. There is a pedestrial walkway on the south side of the bridge, seen at right in the photo |
| Photo Date: |
10/24/1987 Upload Date: 6/12/2015 4:37:40 AM |
| Location: |
Harpers Ferry, WV |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Tunnel,Bridge |
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257 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Now thats a switch!! |
| Description: |
A three way switch in the Binghamton yard. Odd configuration, considering they had space to build something a little less complicated. |
| Photo Date: |
6/18/1988 Upload Date: 7/19/2015 2:22:05 AM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Track |
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313 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
BX signals |
| Description: |
This set of signals was at the south end of Bevier St, though they controlled Lackawanna trains. Two of the three are now out of service. The two left most signals protected what was once a diamond crossing of the DLW, which came up from BD-the track in the distance-and crossed the D&H here. The middle signal protected the D&H at the same point, on their line coming up from their station, which was (and is) at Chenango St. The right most signal protects the DLW crossing with the Erie at BD, and at the date of the photo, is still in service. The DLW and D&H crossed just out of the photo at a location known as BX, by this time converted to a set of crossovers, with the D&H continuing into Bevier St and then up to Belden Hill. The DLW line went north to YO yard, just north of the diamond, and long abandoned at this time. The Utica Branch continued north, running parallel to, but lower than, the D&H as far as Chenango Bridge. All of these signals are now long gone, as CP reconfigured the south end of Bevier St after they took over in 1990. |
| Photo Date: |
12/3/1988 Upload Date: 9/16/2015 1:21:05 PM |
| Location: |
Binghamton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal |
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231 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Signal bridge |
| Description: |
This signal bridge is on the Park Avenue viaduct as the line approaches 125th St. Its a classic example of NYC signal structures. A New Haven Line train approaches in the distance. |
| Photo Date: |
6/3/1989 Upload Date: 10/29/2015 4:06:16 AM |
| Location: |
Manhattan, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Signal,Action |
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214 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Anticipation |
| Description: |
A southbound train is leaving East Binghamton, the headlight seen in the distance as it slowly approaches Block Limit SHAWS, at Shaw Rd in Conklin. The sign and marker are Conrails, but they will linger on into the CP era. |
| Photo Date: |
8/21/1989 Upload Date: 11/5/2015 2:30:08 AM |
| Location: |
Conklin, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Track |
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170 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
New Lots tunnel |
| Description: |
The NY Connecting RR and Bay Ridge Branch-owned at various times by both the LIRR and New Haven-snaked its way through Queens and Brooklyn, connecting the Hell Gate Bridge with the Brooklyn waterfront at 65th St in Bay Ridge. Some of it was on the surface, but it also tunneled through more congested parts of the city. One such place was in the East New York section of Brooklyn, where it went underground in the area near Broadway Junction, where Broadway, Atlantic Av and Fulton St converge. This was a busy place even in 1914 when the line was built, with elevated lines on Fulton, Broadway, and the Canarsie Line, as well as the LIRR on Atlantic Av. We look at the portal coming out from under Atlantic Av, with the BMT Canarsie Line(L train) overhead. The tunnel was built to handle four tracks; now only one is active. |
| Photo Date: |
9/10/1989 Upload Date: 11/25/2015 2:40:25 AM |
| Location: |
East New York, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Tunnel,Track |
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279 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
All clear |
| Description: |
One great thing about semaphores was you always knew what the signal indication was. The twin blades at Tioga Center, 242-1 and 242-2, show clear. If a train was imminent, there was a light on the base of the blade that lit, matching the indication on the blade. |
| Photo Date: |
3/6/1990 Upload Date: 12/31/2015 4:26:53 AM |
| Location: |
Tioga Center, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal |
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200 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Clear westbound |
| Description: |
Signal 242-1 at Tioga Center, ready for the next westbound. |
| Photo Date: |
3/6/1990 Upload Date: 12/31/2015 4:30:28 AM |
| Location: |
Tioga Center, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal |
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129 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Approach |
| Description: |
Signal 242-2 is at approach, a K Line container train having recently passed behind a solo NYSW B 40-8. |
| Photo Date: |
3/6/1990 Upload Date: 12/31/2015 4:32:20 AM |
| Location: |
Tioga Center, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal |
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125 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Stop and proceed |
| Description: |
A K Line train has just passed, setting this signal to stop and proceed. Its also possible to see that train is still in the block ahead by the red light showing in the base of the blade. |
| Photo Date: |
3/6/1990 Upload Date: 12/31/2015 4:35:53 AM |
| Location: |
Tioga Center, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Signal |
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133 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Train coming |
| Description: |
The signal shows clear at 242-2 for an eastbound, with one in the block, as we can see from the green light in the base of the blade. It will be a K Line stack train behind NYSW 4032. |
| Photo Date: |
3/6/1990 Upload Date: 12/31/2015 4:38:12 AM |
| Location: |
Tioga Center, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal |
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134 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
One fast, one slow |
| Description: |
The signal on track 1 shows clear, while the signal on track 2 shows approach. This pair was not the only such arrangement on the Tier. There was also a side by side pair at Arkport, MP 337, but they were not close to the road, and it was either a walk in, or go across a cornfield to get to them. There were several that were not quite across from each other, but close enough, in the Canisteo valley, that were reasonably accessible. There was one double head set at Southport, but it was replaced in late 1988 before I knew about it, so I never got a photo. |
| Photo Date: |
3/6/1990 Upload Date: 12/31/2015 4:43:27 AM |
| Location: |
Tioga Center, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal |
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149 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Erie sentinel |
| Description: |
Signal 233-2 was on the eastbound track at Hiawatha Rd in Owego, just east of town. At the time of the photo, it still had its Erie number plate. Conrail would replace these in the next few years, taking one more memory of the Erie and EL away. |
| Photo Date: |
6/13/1990 Upload Date: 1/13/2016 3:46:53 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Track |
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192 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
NOOOOOOO!!!!!! |
| Description: |
Say it aint so!! New signal masts for tri light color signals lie on the ground alongside the track 1 semaphore at the twins in Tioga Center. Turned out this was a false alarm, and the masts were removed shortly after, probably needed for a more urgent project elsewhere. The writing was on the wall, though, and the reprieve lasted til the following year. By March 1992, the semaphores had become a memory here. |
| Photo Date: |
7/6/1990 Upload Date: 1/16/2016 1:14:15 AM |
| Location: |
Tioga Center, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Scenic,Signal |
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148 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Green signal in the blue hour |
| Description: |
The signal on track 2 east of Owego shows clear as twilight takes over the Southern Tier. In a moment, KL 2 behind a single CP SD 40-2 will blow past toward Binghamton. Is there nothing so inviting as a clear board?? |
| Photo Date: |
3/6/1991 Upload Date: 4/10/2015 4:09:36 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal |
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251 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Keeping watch |
| Description: |
The searchlight signal 219-1 watches over track 1 of the Southern Tier Line at Endwell under a perfect late summer sky. |
| Photo Date: |
9/7/1991 Upload Date: 3/2/2015 1:35:59 AM |
| Location: |
Endwell, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal |
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194 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Catching the last rays |
| Description: |
Signal 251-2 on track 2 about 3 1/2 miles east of Waverly catches the last sun of the day. This was one of several dozen semphores then extant on the line, one of the greatest concentrations of them in the country. This one would last into the 21st Century, finally removed by NS. |
| Photo Date: |
9/19/1991 Upload Date: 2/23/2015 2:48:09 AM |
| Location: |
Waverly, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal |
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211 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Signal west |
| Description: |
The signal for the main track governing westbound trains at Silver Springs stands stark against a summer sky. |
| Photo Date: |
7/17/1993 Upload Date: 1/19/2015 3:22:54 AM |
| Location: |
Silver Springs, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Track |
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220 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Erie semaphore |
| Description: |
One of the approximately dozen semaphores still working on the Southern Tier in 1995, at MP 247 in Barton. |
| Photo Date: |
6/29/1995 Upload Date: 8/14/2014 2:27:54 AM |
| Location: |
Barton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal |
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207 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Sunset on the Tier |
| Description: |
A lone hawk(on crossarm of third pole from right) watches for the next westbound as the sun drops toward the horizon, seen from the former Erie station in Owego. The hawk will be rewarded shortly when CP 261 roll past with a trio of SD40s. |
| Photo Date: |
10/6/1995 Upload Date: 8/7/2014 2:25:21 AM |
| Location: |
Owego, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Track |
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190 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Lone semaphore |
| Description: |
This semaphore stood guarding what little traffic was left on Santa Fes passenger line near Syracuse Kan |
| Photo Date: |
10/27/1996 Upload Date: 5/6/2014 1:57:49 AM |
| Location: |
Syracuse, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal |
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277 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Restricting sunset |
| Description: |
The signal at CP Horn shows a restricting indication as the sun sets on another Southern Tier day. In EL days, this location was ZY, the east end of Hornell yard. |
| Photo Date: |
9/23/2003 Upload Date: 6/11/2016 5:27:32 AM |
| Location: |
Hornell, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal |
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180 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Home signal |
| Description: |
Some years ago, Trains asked "do railroad photos have to include trains??" That was the premise for a piece that featured several pages of photos that had a number of railroad items, but no trains. Here we see such an effort. This is the home signal at CP HORN, once ZY on the EL, at the east end of Hornell yard. Now, its the end of a controlled siding that extends to CASS St downtown, and also allows access to what remains of the once sprawling Hornell yard. As the sun set on EL, so it sets on this signal, lined up for a westbound CP train to take the siding. |
| Photo Date: |
9/23/2003 Upload Date: 2/24/2013 3:03:13 AM |
| Location: |
Hornell, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal |
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250 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Green at GR |
| Description: |
The signal at GR-now its CPF 587-in Afton shows high green for a southbound. Hell roll straight down the main as he makes a run for the tunnel. |
| Photo Date: |
11/4/2003 Upload Date: 6/18/2016 2:43:33 AM |
| Location: |
Afton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal |
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126 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Signals in the sky |
| Description: |
The home signals at CP Horseheads, just west of Elmira. Note the new poles going up for the upgraded signals to be installed by NS. |
| Photo Date: |
11/6/2005 Upload Date: 12/14/2013 12:50:59 AM |
| Location: |
Horseheads, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal |
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237 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
In the distance |
| Description: |
H 01 is the headlight in the distance, slowly rolling down toward the Susquehanna River bridge to take a couple of cars to National Pipe in Vestal. It has been almost 50 years since the Lackawanna rolled premier trains here, gaining speed for the trip to Buffalo. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/2006 Upload Date: 6/25/2016 5:18:30 AM |
| Location: |
Johnson City, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Track,Action |
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132 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Used to be big time |
| Description: |
Were looking west on the Vestal Spur at Willow St in Johnson City. This was once the DLW main, a place where the Phoebe Snow was getting up to 70 MPH for its trip across the Tier. Now, its a single track that is restricted to 10 MPH, and except for a twice a week trip to National Pipe in Vestal, hardly sees a car anymore. The NYSEG plant about 1/2 mile down closed, taking 180 or so cars per week off the line. When I moved to the area in 1988, the factories on both sides of the tracks here received cars. Now its just a matter of time til abandonment, leaving empty roadbed to the rain. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/2006 Upload Date: 6/25/2016 5:16:03 AM |
| Location: |
Johnson City, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Track |
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149 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Approach |
| Description: |
The signal at North Gentry is showing approach. A southbound is imminent on the main, and will be meeting a northbound here. The northbound has not arrived yet, so the signal at the south end is at stop. |
| Photo Date: |
10/27/2007 Upload Date: 7/12/2016 4:40:47 AM |
| Location: |
Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal |
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103 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Lines in the grass |
| Description: |
The Cimarron Valley operates several former Santa Fe branch lines out of Dodge City. One of them passes through Johnson, Kan, and on into Colorado. Were at the Kansas-Colorado line looking east, as we can see from the faint "Kansas" on the marker, letting crews know they are leaving all that mountain majesty behind and heading into the vast flatness of Kansas. |
| Photo Date: |
9/20/2008 Upload Date: 8/10/2016 5:21:35 AM |
| Location: |
Saunders, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Track |
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130 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
In the shadow of former glory |
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This is a view looking west on the ex Rock Island Choctaw route at Howe. The KCS is behind me. The track going off to the left is the connection to the KCS from the AOK, which now operates this line as far as Mc Alester. Two sidings remain where there appears to have been a yard. Overhead is US 59. I cant look at this line without thinking about how a freight behind a set of GP 35s or F units would have looked, or perhaps a passenger train with an FP 7. This was also the interchange point for one of the more obscure mail routes, with KCS and Rock Island handing off mail here. |
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11/9/2008 Upload Date: 8/19/2016 5:12:19 AM |
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Howe, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Scenic,Track |
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Classic Santa Fe |
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Some structures on a railroad leave no illusion about whose road they are on. The signal gantries on the Santa Fe are one of them. When you see one, you know where you are. This one is at the north end of the siding at Guthrie, on the line from Texas to Newton and on to Kansas City. What I find interesting is, that they put only one signal on the gantry, and the other home signal on a mast below it, instead of both boards up above. These signals are being replaced as PTC is installed across the system. This one may be gone by now. |
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5/6/2012 Upload Date: 10/13/2016 4:25:30 AM |
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Guthrie, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Dips and doodles |
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The profile looking south toward CP North Stilwell shows an up and down profile, magnified by the telephoto. And you thought the midwest was flat!! |
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9/27/2015 Upload Date: 10/7/2015 2:10:17 AM |
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Stilwell, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Signal,Track |
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219 Comments: 1 |
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Signs, everywhere theres signs |
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In this case, a milepost, this one on the KCS between Watts and Westville OK, just south of the Chewie Rd crossing, 239 miles from Kansas City Union Station. Its also into a speed restricted curve, in this case, 30 MPH. Makes the chasing here a bit easier, though maximum authorized is only 40, and adjacent US 59 is a 65 MPH highway here. |
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11/4/2015 Upload Date: 5/23/2024 5:58:27 AM |
| Location: |
Westville, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Roster,Signal |
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Slight tilt |
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The signal at MP 238, which carries northbound 238-0 and southbound 238-1, stands straight and tall. The antenna, however, has a slight lean. There is also a radio alarm defect detector here. |
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11/4/2015 Upload Date: 5/6/2023 4:51:42 AM |
| Location: |
Watts, OK |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Roster,Signal |
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16 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Approach |
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Theres a southbound approaching the signal at CP North Gentry. Here it will meet the northbound H train, which has pulled up to the Main St crossing, holding there til the southbound is close enough to perform an efficient meet, and not block both crossings in town. Once the northbound has pulled up, this signal will clear to high green. |
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4/3/2016 Upload Date: 4/9/2016 3:25:46 AM |
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Gentry, AR |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Scenic,Signal,Track |
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