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The 316 signals were situated immediately east of milepost 317 (as measured from Jersey City).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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These twin semaphores were located near milepost 317 on Conrail\u2019s former Erie Railroad in the Canisteo River Valley east of Hornell, New York. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although visible from the Canisteo River Road, to reach them required a short walk across a farmer\u2019s field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difficulty of capturing this pair of signals with a train was the tight angle on a tangent during normal operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My solution to this visual problem was to photograph the signals with a train moving against the current of traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The challenge was finding a train running \u2018wrong main\u2019 at the right time of day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January 1988, I had my opportunity. A Conrail double-stack had been given a Form-D to run against the current of traffic on the No. 1 track from Hornell to Gang Mills. I raced ahead in time to jog through the field and set up east of the signals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with my Leica M2 and my dad’s 135mm Elmarit lens, I made a series of Kodachrome slides. This image was first the in the sequence and nicely shows the signals and stacks in the scenic valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These twin semaphores were located near milepost 317 on Conrail\u2019s former Erie Railroad in the Canisteo River Valley east of Hornell, New York. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[5830,4774,5128,5164,5418],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Conrail_APL_stack_BrianSolomon_203105-4.jpg?fit=1000%2C686","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-84C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31038"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31041,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31038\/revisions\/31041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}