PHOTOS: MEMORIAL DAY NEC
Hey, last Memorial day I took a trip up to CT and managed to Photograph some of the new signaling and interlocking changes on the NEC.
These include the new GREENS FARMS high speed 4-track crossover in the New Haven Line b/t Norwalk and Bridgeport. The recently completed tweaks to SHELL interlocking (5+ years in the making). The new crossover on the Amtrak Hellgate line right before SHELL and finally the new signaling gantries on the NEC between ZOO and NORTH PHILADELPHIA.
I also got some sweet pics of the Hallgate bridge complete with CSX freight train as well as Sunnyside yard and F interlocking pics.
You can see the whole set at:
http://acm.jhu.edu/~sthurmovik/Railpics/06-06-01_MEMORIAL_DAY_06/-Thumbnails.html
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The signals (if you can call them that) have been turned on at the restored GREENS FARMS interlocking. Note the HST's.
Here is perhaps the best photo I have of an Amtrak train taking the "Straight Shot" at SHELL.
New crossover on the Hellgate Line. Who says position lights are dead. From the installed indications on the signal, these turnouts will be rated for 60mph.
Nice shot of signal bridge 68 on the Hellgate line complete with the Hellgate bridge and CSX freight train.
Lots of equipment in Sunnyside on this mid-weekday.
Time was getting on in the afternoon and trains were lining up in the hole for the evening rush.
New 4-track signal gantry on the NEC in North Philly....
to replace the old all Amber PRR bridge a few hundred yards away. This old bridge was the approach signal for the old NORTH PHILADELPHIA interlocking, which was recently modernized raped.
In the other direction this gantry replaces two single intermediate signals located on overpasses. One is located right behind the new gantry and was already colourized so the #2 track signal could be placed directly in service. The other "876" signal, on #1 track, is PRR Amber and is the last remnent of the connection to the ZOO siding (now Trenton Line), which was an extended part of ZOO interlocking (levers 228-230).
These include the new GREENS FARMS high speed 4-track crossover in the New Haven Line b/t Norwalk and Bridgeport. The recently completed tweaks to SHELL interlocking (5+ years in the making). The new crossover on the Amtrak Hellgate line right before SHELL and finally the new signaling gantries on the NEC between ZOO and NORTH PHILADELPHIA.
I also got some sweet pics of the Hallgate bridge complete with CSX freight train as well as Sunnyside yard and F interlocking pics.
You can see the whole set at:
http://acm.jhu.edu/~sthurmovik/Railpics/06-06-01_MEMORIAL_DAY_06/-Thumbnails.html
.
The signals (if you can call them that) have been turned on at the restored GREENS FARMS interlocking. Note the HST's.
Here is perhaps the best photo I have of an Amtrak train taking the "Straight Shot" at SHELL.
New crossover on the Hellgate Line. Who says position lights are dead. From the installed indications on the signal, these turnouts will be rated for 60mph.
Nice shot of signal bridge 68 on the Hellgate line complete with the Hellgate bridge and CSX freight train.
Lots of equipment in Sunnyside on this mid-weekday.
Time was getting on in the afternoon and trains were lining up in the hole for the evening rush.
New 4-track signal gantry on the NEC in North Philly....
to replace the old all Amber PRR bridge a few hundred yards away. This old bridge was the approach signal for the old NORTH PHILADELPHIA interlocking, which was recently modernized raped.
In the other direction this gantry replaces two single intermediate signals located on overpasses. One is located right behind the new gantry and was already colourized so the #2 track signal could be placed directly in service. The other "876" signal, on #1 track, is PRR Amber and is the last remnent of the connection to the ZOO siding (now Trenton Line), which was an extended part of ZOO interlocking (levers 228-230).
