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This is a mechanical semaphore but it also had electricity to it.id when it was used.older pics of train station don't have it.View attachment 6556
 
Better pic to show the arm color.I will Cypher if I can.
 
Ahhh, I remember seeing a few of those along railroads when I was a kid. Didn't know there were any still in use.
 
I just took those and I wanted the arm visible in that first image and it didn't show up , so I sat in my truck and took the second. I will go inside the museum when its open on Tuesday and get more info on where that semaphore was.
 
Obadiah said:
Ahhh, I remember seeing a few of those along railroads when I was a kid. Didn't know there were any still in use.
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train station is a museum, it hasn't been used since the late 60's
 
jasonc said:
train station is a museum, it hasn't been used since the late 60's
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Oh, OK. I didn't realize it was a museum! That makes sense. It would have been mid to late 60s when I would have seen a few of them still along railroads.
 
ah the image has a semaphore but the one I took a pic. a mechanical one is shown. the grid that I work for now was in its beginnings then when this was built. or 1925. I think the wire is a telegraph line.
 
Nice to see some of those old places restored so nicely like that. We have an old railway station here in Blaine, Wa too that's just sitting there the way it was the last time they used it. I sure wish they would do something with it before someone gets the idea to bulldoze it and build yet another strip mall. There's been talk of making it a museum or of actually opening it up again as a working Amtrak station. I'd love to see it open up as a station again because it would be walking distance for me to get on a train to go to Seattle. As it is now there's no train or bus stop within 25 miles of me.
 
Obadiah said:
It says "VERO". Is that Vero Beach, Florida?
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picture predates probably the county . where I live didn't have the city officially until 1925. it was called vero from the time of the oldest map I can find of it which is 1880ish and it has vero listed but to the south. when the train came and the town incorporated to vero beach officially in 1925, it was changed. but this image is old and says vero making it before 1925.

http://www.verobeach.com/history.html
 
Obadiah said:
Nice to see some of those old places restored so nicely like that. We have an old railway station here in Blaine, Wa too that's just sitting there the way it was the last time they used it. I sure wish they would do something with it before someone gets the idea to bulldoze it and build yet another strip mall. There's been talk of making it a museum or of actually opening it up again as a working Amtrak station. I'd love to see it open up as a station again because it would be walking distance for me to get on a train to go to Seattle. As it is now there's no train or bus stop within 25 miles of me.
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we had passenger service up to as I said and now we are fighting against that. its not worth the bother and inconvenience. 32 trains a day on top of the freight trains. imagine calling 911 In the middle of a train.
 
I remember seeing those..... somewhere long ago and far away. Of course except for my workplace, I don't live around RR tracks, either. I think the tracks where I work have lighting signals now to alert the engineer.
 
tim-from-pa said:
I remember seeing those..... somewhere long ago and far away. Of course except for my workplace, I don't live around RR tracks, either. I think the tracks where I work have lighting signals now to alert the engineer.
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ours does as well the link says that. the semaphore depicted was donated by a politicians daughters. I didn't post the plaque for that since the name would be only known to the locals.
 
jasonc said:
we had passenger service up to as I said and now we are fighting against that. its not worth the bother and inconvenience. 32 trains a day on top of the freight trains. imagine calling 911 In the middle of a train.
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Yeah, I can understand that. But here both the freight and Amtrak trains go by several times every day anyway and they have to stop for customs too since it literally in sight of the Canadian border. They just don't stop to pick up or drop off passengers. Makes no sense to me... But man, when they stop those freight trains, they can hold them there for sometimes up to an hour. And the only road out of where I live crosses the track and gets blocked when they do that. Someone needs and ambulance? The railroad couldn't care less. Their attitude is "Let em die, we aint movin that train."
 
Obadiah said:
Yeah, I can understand that. But here both the freight and Amtrak trains go by several times every day anyway and they have to stop for customs too since it literally in sight of the Canadian border. They just don't stop to pick up or drop off passengers. Makes no sense to me... But man, when they stop those freight trains, they can hold them there for sometimes up to an hour. And the only road out of where I live crosses the track and gets blocked when they do that. Someone needs and ambulance? The railroad couldn't care less. Their attitude is "Let em die, we aint movin that train."
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look at the original image of the train station. there were two tracks one for north bound and south bound. flagler wanted it that way so that trains could move all the time. some areas had three tracks for passing which is mentioned in that link. the two signals that I know of that are easily seen are near one of those places. they removed the second track in the late 70s. now they want to build another. let them pay for it without the taxpayer being the loaning side. that and as you said.
 
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