Showing posts with label ATSF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ATSF. Show all posts
Sunday, December 31, 2023

2023 Searchlight News

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 For the last post of 2023 I'm going to go through my backlog of searchlight related news items. First up is the Florida East Coast wher...
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Sunday, June 18, 2023

Caught on Camera: Mendon, MO Level Crossing

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 One side effect of taking photos from the back of long distance Amtrak trains is that from time to time you get a good shot of what might e...
Saturday, January 28, 2023

Caught on Camera: The US&S M22

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The Union Switch and Signal M3 series of switch machines (including the M3, M23 and A and B models of both) is so ubiquitous and has been ar...
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Friday, April 29, 2022

The Trials and Tribulations of Los Angeles' Closed Towers

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This post fits neatly into the "old news" category as the events I am noting took place something like 4+ years ago, but it will p...
Friday, July 9, 2021

Searchlight News

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 I just realized that I had a growing backlog of news items regarding searchlight signals, some of it a little bit old, but still worth high...
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Saturday, March 6, 2021

The Final* Wig Wag

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In March of 2021 the final active Wig Wag style grade crossing warning device on a North American main line railroad was retired from servi...
Thursday, February 4, 2021

BNSF to Retire Most ATSF ATS on 2/15/21

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On Presidents Day 2021 (likely at Midnight between Sunday and Monday), in a move that was entirely foreseen and entirely understandable (unl...
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Thursday, December 10, 2020

Signs! Signs! Everywhere a Sign! - Western Passenger Roads

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 It's been a while since my post on Western Freight Railroads , that that's due to the unfortunate situation that many of the commut...
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Monday, September 14, 2020

Fall 2020 Signaling News

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 After a long period of not much going on I recently uncovered a bunch of signaling new, little of it good.  First off, the last pure ATSF s...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Surviving BNSF Marceline Sub Searchlights Retired

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While this probably isn't breaking news I am still going to report the fact that the last two intact ATSF era signal bridges on the Marc...
Sunday, October 6, 2019

Signs! Signs! Everywhere a Sign! - Western Freight Roads

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Well it's time to cross the Mississippi and get this series finished up.  Today I will be exploring the signs of the Western freight roa...
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Sunday, December 2, 2018

Caught on Camera: ATS Ding

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Intermittent Inductive Automatic Train Stop (ATS) was that thing that met the minimum safety requirements for high speed rail as laid down ...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Conflicting Route Conundrum

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So the following photo drew a number of questions on both its own page and also a few of the signaling forums.  As one can see it appears t...
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