Brighton Park Crossing, with the manned "tower" (shack) complete with "facilities" (port-a-potty). Hope that tower is heated, because the temp as BNSF 9507 hits the diamond is about 15 degrees.

UP 2998, a former C&NW SD40-2 (with a smiley face on the nose bell) and another UP SD40-2 are moving light through the Brighton Park Crossing. This crossing is still manned and uses semaphores.

A UP stack train heads east through the manual interlocking on CSX rails.

An extra 342 manifest heads north through the manual interlocking at Brighton Park. A loaded rail train was at the headend of this freight.

Amtrak 509 approaches the Brighton Park interlocking with the Inbound State House from St. Louis on a warm morning. Next to where I was standing were some of Chicago area's last ope... (more)

I haven't been by lately, but I believe these semaphores are still up and running in 2006.

UP 5579 passing the still in use semaphores at Brighton Park

Amtrak 145 passes the still in use semaphores at Brighton park

NS 5139 north passing Brighton Park Interlocking.

Semaphores signal NS Dash-9 to proceed

BNSF SD70MAC with working semaphores behind