Showing posts with label Southern. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Southern. Show all posts
Friday, March 14, 2025

NS Ashville Cantilever is Kaput

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I have seen photos of the great Southern RR cantilever signal in downtown Ashville, NC being cut down for scrap. With modern style ABS signa...
Saturday, December 7, 2024

Mind the Gap! - The case of "3rd Head Restricting"

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There's a odd feature in current North American railroad signal practice dating back to the 19th century that hints at the practices of ...
Sunday, August 21, 2022

Roanoke and Lynchburg Trip Report

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 I recently had to the privilege of riding Amtrak's second daily round trip to Roanoke, VA, allowing for single day excursions to the St...
Sunday, November 11, 2018

Signs! Signs! Everywhere a Sign! - Eastern Class 1 Freight

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Station signs are a uniform way of figuring out where you are on the railroad.  Sure mileposts work to, but important landmarks like station...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2018

2018 RF&P / A-Line / H-Line / Southern Main Line Trip Report

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It has been three years since I last surveyed the RF&P, A-Line and Southern Main Line and quite a bit has changed. This report will try...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Springtime for News

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We start off this time with another gut punch to the signaling scene.  The NS re-signaling effort is not attacking the PC era position light...
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Tuesday, February 7, 2017

NS Windup Signals Winding Down

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So I was out this weekend documenting some locations on the former N&W H-Line in West Virginia and I saw an intermediate signal being re...
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Monday, November 7, 2016

Election Night Coverage!

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Ha, fooled you!  I didn't say exactly what I was going to cover on this night before the election and as you may not have guessed (for o...
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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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