First a bit of rare good news up on Amtrak's Springfield Line double track project. The old H-5 searchlights were removed over a decade ago, so there's no much downside to this 4-track signal bridge of modular target signals that is going up near Berlin, CT, complete with Rule 562 'C' boards.
Meanwhile, over in N&W territory, the slimy tendrils of NS's resignaling project is slowly wrapping their way around the iconic Bluefield area. It's a shame the collapse of coal hasn't preserved the old N&W region in amber as happened on similar main lines around the lower midwest.
It's not even the N&W signals that are going. These modern era NS/N&W signals are also on the way out. Note the new 'Y' lamp on the bottom head as NS uses the importunity to include a Restricting capability, omitted from the previous CTC scheme.
Moving on the Southern part of Norfolk Southern, the new signals are in service on the main line at Salisbury, but old new ones are still standing...for now.
Moving on to CSX, any readers in Georgia should hop on over to the A&WP/WofA Sub to document this adorable little elephant ear mast near LaGrange before its gone forever.
Well that's it. Apart from the tower closings this was a pretty slow news month...at least signaling wise.
One thing I've noticed about new NS signals, is some of them have a single-lamp [red] as the lower-most signal. I can see having it on three-headed signals like you picture in this post as that would upgrade R/Y to R/Y/R restricting to diverging approach (I think), but I've seen cases where it's a 3 over 1 arrangement. What purpose would it serve there and elsewhere?
ReplyDeleteNS tries to made its absolute signals R/R as an extra visual reminder.
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