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[Blue439]

With welded rail now found nearly everywhere, rail joints like these are less common and placed only where needed. Note how the bolt and nut placement is alternated on the splice bars. This is done for safety. If there were to be a derailment and a wheel flange dropped off the rail, no matter which side of the rail it might fall, the flange will not shear off all of the bolts. [D5100]

Very interesting!

 

[Woodyg3]

 

[Sandpatch]

Wow, that's a beautiful picture @Woodyg3, a timeless image in B&W. So that viewers are aware, that's San Antonio, NM on the former Santa Fe Railway line south from Albuquerque. I think the region ran out of ideas for town names, also being the home of Las Vegas, NM!

 

[Sandpatch]

Chicago, South Shore & South Bend interurban at Chicago, about 1975. Car 102 entered service in 1926 and was modernized and lengthened after WW-II. It was scrapped in 2023, being too far in ruin to save. [Nikkormat FTn, Plus-X]

 

[Sandpatch]

From about 1976, Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Rwy. at Barrington, IL. [Nikkormat FTn, Plus-X]

 

[Woodyg3]

@Sandpatch Thanks for the kind words on the San Antonio shot. Yes, New Mexico, and I should have noted that. We stayed overnight in Las Vegas, as well. (The one in NM, not "Sin City" in Nevada. )

 

[Dawg Pics]

From the mid-1970s at Barrington, Illinois (USA) is an interlocking tower (known as a signal box across the pond) and its levers inside. Both are gone today. These were known as "armstrong" machines because they required strong arms to move the levers which mechanically moved long lengths of steel rod to set switches and signals.

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I love images like this that show mechanical things, especially of this size. I find them fascinating.

 

[Blue439]

Aye ! We likes trains and locos!

 

[Sandpatch]

Another from the fall of 1977 at Knoxville, TN (USA). That's the old Louisville & Nashville station as opened in 1905 and which has since been refurbished and still stands today, though not in service as a station. At the time I took this, the L&N ran a one car passenger train from the station to the University of Tennessee's football stadium as a courtesy to railroad shippers. [Nikkormat FTn, Plus-X]

 

[Needa]

Another from the fall of 1977 at Knoxville, TN (USA). That's the old Louisville & Nashville station as opened in 1905 and which has since been refurbished and still stands today, though not in service as a station. At the time I took this, the L&N ran a one car passenger train from the station to the University of Tennessee's football stadium as a courtesy to railroad shippers. [Nikkormat FTn, Plus-X]

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Must have been a grand place in its day!

 

[Sandpatch]

From about 1975 at O'Hare Airport in Chicago, IL, a look at piston-powered Convair 580s as operated by North Central Airlines which operated routes in the upper midwest. I had a late friend who was as crazy about aircraft as I was about trains, so we enjoyed some good times together. Shortly after I took this shot, a pilot invited us into a cockpit for a closer look. Simpler times. [Nikkormat FTn, Plus-X]