Canadian Railroads > Where Did Roger Find These Semaphores??

This was during his October 1980 trip to photograph trains in Canada.


Thanks,
Marty Bernard

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It's the same semaphore at mile 43.8 of some subdivision.

KG

Thanks KG. But for a caption I need a location. Marty

The semaphore appears not to have a yellow roundel. Sometimes home signals at an interlocking might not have an approach indication but they would also have a square end on the blade. Doesn't look like an interlocking here anyway. Maybe somewhere in New England?

Tom

The pointed red blade is something I had not seen until a few weeks ago in this TO thread:

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,4289731,4289849#msg-4289849

Perhaps an approach signal to an interlocking?

I look forward to learning the location.

UP3806 Wrote:
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> The semaphore appears not to have a yellow
> roundel. Sometimes home signals at an interlocking
> might not have an approach indication but they
> would also have a square end on the blade. Doesn't
> look like an interlocking here anyway. Maybe
> somewhere in New England?
>
> Tom

UP3806 Wrote:
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> The semaphore appears not to have a yellow
> roundel. Sometimes home signals at an interlocking
> might not have an approach indication but they
> would also have a square end on the blade. Doesn't
> look like an interlocking here anyway. Maybe
> somewhere in New England?
>
> Tom


All the slides in this Logan Box of Roger's are from Canada. The chance these two are not is very slim.

Marty



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/04/17 19:56 by MartyBernard.

A bunch of this type of ABS + Train Order type of operation only had signals that could display yellow aspects at the beginning and approach to sidings. This saved a bunch of line wire and relays, as it only took 3 wires to run the system.

The only disadvantage was when following another train, the signal leaving the siding would stay red until the preceding train cleared the home block of a signal that could display yellow, which could be the approach to the next siding...
A broken rail would also make you flag several blocks.

The SP's Phoenix and Siskiyou lines were that way, which cut costs considerably, as they were lower quadrant semaphores which couldn't display yellow without a second blade.
G