RAILROAD SIGNALS of the U.S.

Railfan and Signal Guide to
BEREA OH

Maps     the Tower, Station, and Trains     the Signals     the Grade Crossings

Maps and Aerial Photos

The above map is from Mapquest, below are pix from maps.live.com......

 
Overhead shot of the tower and station area.

 
Picture of the Station Restaurant.

 
BE tower, and the two signals that are slated for replaced.

 
A shot of the tower and station.

 
Another good place for pictures is at the end of this warehouse type building, a half mile down Depot St.

 
A couple of nice bridges just a little past Rocky River Dr, not sure if there are any good vantage points for them.

the Tower, Station, and Trains

The photo at the top of the page is what every Berea goer strives to capture.... Two eastbound freights at speed, one on CSX, and one on the Norfolk Southern.... Many wait years to get this shot, I was lucky to get mine on my second visit after about 20 minutes of waiting.  8APR2001... the rest of the photos are from 19SEP2007 unless noted.

            A few shots of BE Tower

   An Eastbound CSX Freight

               the Station Restaurant

      An Eastbound NS Freight... just got done passing BE Tower

     Another eastbound NS Freight, nicknamed the John Deere Freight

     Another eastbound NS Freight

   Westbound CSX freight at Front.   4OCT2004

   Two passing CSX freights at the station.  Also 4OCT2004

  Waiting and waiting and waiting pays off with this "colorful" NS Freight with BNSF engines

  An RTA bus zooming by.

     New signal and bases ready and waiting to be installed

     Equipment cabinets for the signals

     The Dave McKay Memorial
 

the SIGNALS of BEREA

Most of the signals here at Berea are US&S color lights arranged in a triangular fashion, some fans call them tri-lights because of this arrangement, but signal maintainers just call them color light signals.

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the Grade Crossings at Front St

  CSX Grade Crossing, looking northish on Front

  NS Grade Crossing, looking northish on Front

   Both Grade Crossings, looking south on Front

Three head signal for westbound CSX freights on Track 1.  The bottom head, in contrast to all of the other signals at this locale, appears to have only two aspects and is not a "tri-light" with one position blanked out.

NEW 9/30/2007
Last Modified on 11-Oct-2007