Showing posts with label Signals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Signals. Show all posts

Friday, January 3, 2025

WNYP ALCos on Driftwood Turn

 

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About 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 2, 2019, the southbound Driftwood Turn is at Emporium, PA with Western New York and Pennsylvania (WNYP) 685, 630, 643 bound for Driftwood, PA.
WNYP 685 is a MLW M636. Reportedly: it was built in 1975 as QCM 85, builders number M6085-0. Numbers and reporting marks reported as assigned to this locomotive include: NYSW 3674, QCM 85, RRPX 85, WNYP 685.
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Nikon D600 80~200mm f2.8 lens image,
2019.7.2.4.14-ph

Saturday, December 28, 2024

Semaphores Going Away

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On an unrecorded date, circa 1981, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) 8024 is in Port Chicago, CA. At the time the ATSF's upper quadrant semaphores were being replaced with target signals.
ATSF 8024 is a GE C30-7. Reportedly: it was built in 1978 builders number 41691. It was retired in 1992.
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Nikon FM2, Tri-X film, Negative: 1.1.13.25.4A


SP ALCo S-2 1780

Click Photo To Enlarge Southern Pacific (SP) 1780 was the last SP ALCo S-2 to work in Oakland, CA. SP 1780 was in Homestead Yard, West Oakla...