bridges, rails and a pagoda

[low_delta]

Here are my photos from last Wednesday's Chicago trip.




















I really wanted to get into this park, because it's so close to the railroad bridge, but I didn't see the entrance until it was too late.

Comments

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

Do the red lights directed at the train tracks mean that the trains are supposed to stop?

I love the little arch beside the railroad bridge house, and the detail on the iron fencing.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I don't actually know what the signals mean. I want to say green means you can go that way and red means you can't, but in that photo, I only see green and yellow.

Yeah, good details on that one.

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

On the third one down, where the car is crossing the tracks, it looks like the red lights are in the direction of the tracks, not the auto traffic.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Oh that one. Yeah, there are only red lights. I saw one train come across the bridge, and it was moving towards me, so it wasn't going against the red. Anyway, let me look it up.

"There is no national standard or system for railroad signaling in North America. Individual railroad corporations are free to devise their own signaling systems as long as they uphold some basic regulated safety requirements."

http://www.railroadsignals.us/basics/basics4.htm

So it's hard to say. But modern lights use LED's so what looks like a single red light, maybe change to yellow or green.

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

Hmm, so unless you work for a line, you don't really know. Ok, thanks.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

Lots of bridges in the 4th from the bottom photo! So, was that your primary purpose in going to Chicago? To see bridges, I mean...

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

First idea was the Violent Femmes concert. Then I decided I'd spend the day there and take photos. The bridges were the first part of that (and the only, as it turned out). Then I realized I could meet Brenda.