low_delta: (photographer)
low_delta ([personal profile] low_delta) wrote2016-07-18 11:52 pm
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bridges, rails and a pagoda

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

Canal Street Railroad Bridge

Canal Street Railroad Bridge

Canal Street Railroad Bridge

Canal Street Railroad Bridge

Cermak Road Bridge stop lights

Cermak Road Bridge

Cermak Road Bridge bridgehouse

four bridges

Canal Street Bridge

Ping Tom Memorial Park
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.

Amtrak yards

[identity profile] low-delta.livejournal.com 2016-07-21 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] ravenfeather.livejournal.com 2016-07-21 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm, so unless you work for a line, you don't really know. Ok, thanks.