File:FRONT VIEW, AUTOMATIC BLOCK SIGNAL, EASTBOUND ON CATENARY BRIDGE 486 - New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, Automatic Signalization System, Long Island Sound shoreline HAER CONN,1-STAMF,2-1.tif

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FRONT VIEW, AUTOMATIC BLOCK SIGNAL, EASTBOUND ON CATENARY BRIDGE 486 - New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, Automatic Signalization System, Long Island Sound shoreline between Stamford and New Haven, Stamford, Fairfield County, CT
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Brown, Thomas

Related names:

Consolidated Rail Corporation
New York Central Railroad
General Railway Signal Company
Union Switch and Signal Company
Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Company
Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Company
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FRONT VIEW, AUTOMATIC BLOCK SIGNAL, EASTBOUND ON CATENARY BRIDGE 486 - New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, Automatic Signalization System, Long Island Sound shoreline between Stamford and New Haven, Stamford, Fairfield County, CT
Depicted place Connecticut; Fairfield County; Stamford
Date 1980
date QS:P571,+1980-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER CONN,1-STAMF,2-1
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  • Significance: This system is one of the few automatic semaphore signal installations still in use on a major railroad in the United States. It was a major element in the first large-scale application of high-voltage railroading in the United States.
  • Survey number: HAER CT-8
  • Building/structure dates: 1917 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ct0380.photos.022802p
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Object location41° 03′ 11.99″ N, 73° 32′ 21.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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