| Posted by on April 3, 2012 | |
VERY nice catch, the motor AND the signal....something I've been combining in Central FL shots a lot lately (just haven't posted many...). Things will be changing soon, now is the time to document.
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Thanks for your comment Kevin!!! Your positive feedback means a lot to a novice.
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| Posted by on April 14, 2012 | |
People might think that Florida is flat, but the "G" sign on this signal indicates that there's a hill here, enough of a hill that a freight might not get started here if it stopped for a red signal, back in the days when a red signal with a number plate meant "Stop and Proceed" and not simply "Restricted Proceed," as it does today. Signals with a "G" plate meant that there was a "grade" and that freight trains could proceed at Restricted Speed without stopping.
Also, an interesting ex-SAL style signal on the former Atlantic Coast Line. The former ACL signals were searchlights; there were still quite a few in central Florida a few years ago (can't speak for these days) but SCL began replacing them with ex-SAL style signals after the SCL merger in 1967.
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