{"id":3720,"date":"2013-09-06T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2013-08-29T06:20:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T10:20:35","slug":"monon-semaphores-romney-indiana-june-24-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/monon-semaphores-romney-indiana-june-24-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Monon Semaphores, Romney, Indiana, June 24, 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"

Old General Railway Signal Semaphores In Corn Country.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

CSX\u2019s former Monon was among the last bastions of semaphores in automatic block territory in the United States. I made this image on the morning of June 24, 2004. While the line only saw a few trains in daylight, there were enough moves to keep the signals busy.<\/p>\n

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Exposed on Fujichrome with a Nikon F3T and Nikkor 180mm lens. The blade on the left displays \u2018clear\u2019, while that on the right shows \u2018approach\u2019. A northward train was on its way.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I wrote about this signal installation in my 2003 book, Railroad Signaling<\/a>, published by MBI. This has since been reprinted as a softcover book. See: Quayside Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Old General Railway Signal Semaphores In Corn Country. CSX\u2019s former Monon was among the last bastions of semaphores in automatic block territory in the United States. I made this image on the morning of June 24, 2004. While the line only saw a few trains in daylight, there were enough moves to keep the signals … Continue reading Monon Semaphores, Romney, Indiana, June 24, 2004<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[4537,35,193,316,7535,1255,1187,1251,45,5,4,1252,1253,32,33,380,1254,200],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-Y0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720"}],"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=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3721,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions\/3721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}