The merger map has been given its own page

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CLICK HERE for a chromaticity chart for the railroad and other services
Changed around the map section to make finding maps a little easier, all maps are indexed at my Railfan Guides homepage
Updated my station/depot section and separated it :
Stations and Depots of Maryland
Stations and Depots outside Maryland 

The rest of the stuff I have recently added is back on the main page

A SB CSX freight at the crossover in Doswell VA, looking east towards Richmond on the old C&O.  12/19/2010
For a railfan guide to this diamond, click here

HLCX #1010 in Kokomo IN
Picture by Tim Vermande

Looking for a cool letter to use in something of yours?  All of my letter icons are available here

If you cruise around the internet enough, you will find all sorts of things that amaze you  :-).... for instance, I was going thru Google's collection of railroad signal pictures and came across about a half dozen of the red, white, and blue letter icons I created ~5 years ago, from other sources... so quite a few people liked them enough to download them and use them on their own websites... I guess imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but I'm the only one who can produce the original Corel Draw files for the letters!  :-)

1)   Hump and Shove Signals
2)   Grade Crossings
3)   Diamond Crossing Protection  (index now part of the Railfan Guides homepage)
4)   Hand Signals 
5)   Pedestrian Crossing Gates

OTHER FORMS of SIGNALS…….
1)   Whistles and Horns 
2)   Flags, Classification flags, and lights 
3)   Markers
4)   FREDs
5)   Lanterns 
6)   Fusees and Torpedos
7)   Signs  (all signs on one page - used to be split up)

1)   Signal Bridges 
2)   Relay Huts / Battery Boxes / Insulators / Poles/ Etc 
3)   Mounting Options
4)   Control Panels
5)   Signal Relays  New stuff
6)   Doll Posts
7)   Pinnacles and Finials
8)   Light Bulbs 
9)   Batteries
10) Power Sources and Transformers

1)   Live Steam and Diesel Homepage
2)   Simple Two Color Lionel Latching Signal Circuit
3)   Model Railroad Signal Offerings
4)   Other Model RR Signal Manufacturers (including live steam size)
5)   The BSME – Baltimore Society of Model Engineers – downtown Baltimore MD
6)   Excellent modefanguides.us/l l starter reference and guide  by Elmer McKay - nice graphics
7)   A great page of links to all Live Steam and Live Diesel Railroads that have websites
8)   Great simple signal drivers and track detectors  by Bill Hudson
9)   The Superior Central RR - A great HO pike in Traverse City MI  by John Popa
10) the Holland Modular Railroad Club A modular RR club based in the Holland and Zeeland area of western Michigan
 

1)   Chattanooga Choo-Choo    Chattanooga TN…. Not really a museum, but…..
2)   North Carolina Transportation Museum    Spencer NC
3)   Radial Railway Museum   Milton ONT
4)   The Rosenberg TX Railroad Museum  Rosenberg TX, SW of Houston…. A signal fans must see
5)   B&O Railroad Museum   Baltimore MD
6)   the Manheim Transportation Museum   Manheim PA, just north of Lancaster
7)   the BSME - Baltimore Society of Model Engineers  downtown Baltimore
8)   the Galveston RR Museum  Galveston TX
9)   the Electric City Trolley Station & Museum Scranton PA, lots of signals!
10) the National Capitol Trolley Museum Colesville MD (suburban DC)

MAP INDEX  This page has been merged with my Railfan Guides homepage

These links are in no particular order, usually as I find them or if someone pays me huge sums of money :-) .....
1) A most wonderful website with oodles of pictures and documents, take your time…  Thank You Zax!!     
        http://www.rrsignalpix.com/
2) Aspect Reference for CPL’s and PL’s of the B&O, N&W, Amtrak, and PRR:
        http://broadway.pennsyrr.com/Rail/Signal/aspects_us_pl.html
3) Dan's Wig-Wig Site:
        http://www.trainweb.org/dansrailpix/WIG_WAG_PAGE1c.htm
4) Comprehensive picture oriented signal site and history on signals:
        http://home.comcast.net/~candcb1/
5) All things Semaphore (but hasn't been updated for a while):
        www.semaphores.com/
6) A great LINKS page at railserve.com:
        http://www.railserve.com/
7) A nice technical reference section from the Railway Technical Web Pages People:
        http://www.railway-technical.com/US-sig.shtml
8) A nice site from north of the border about his US&S searchlight, very well done!, in both Francais and English:
        http://www.emdx.org/rail/signaux/SignalNain/
9) Commercial website talking about their LED's used on Amtrak's Northern Corridor
        http://www.ledsmagazine.com/articles/news/1/11/8/1
10) An outstanding links source for signal signal systems worldwide:
        http://www.thesignalpage.nl/en/data.php
11) A page of signal links courtesy the OERM:
        http://gsee.sdf-us.org/signals/siglinks/siglinks.html
12) Good site, picture oriented:
        http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/1552/index.htm
13)  Railway Technical Web Pages signal index page:
        http://www.railway-technical.com/site-map.shtml
13)  If you're into grade crossing signals, this is the motherlode with over 14,000 pix:
        http://www.rxrsignals.net/      
14)  A three page list of signal sites, mine finally got added in April 2010 
          http://www.railroaddata.com/rrlinks/Signals/
15)  A great source for info on railroad lanterns, watches, locks, etc, and other things like astronomy, COOL SITE, by Jeff Polston
          http://www.jeffpolston.com/home.htm
16)  Several cool links associated with model RR electronics and electricity by Bill Hudson:
          http://www.modelrrsignals.com/      and        http://www.hudsontelcom.com/  
17)  A neat website with more than train info to offer, with links to other cool sites!
          Sent in by Ms. S. Powers of Jefferson County TN and her class:
          http://trainhornsdelivered.com/trtrfitrra.html

TRAIN STUFF
1)   All about the Baltimore Light Rail Vehicles (LRV’s)
2)   Light Rail doubletracking in the Riderwood/Timonium MD area
3)   The Baltimore and Susquehana marble ties of Timonium MD
4)   Railroad pictures
5)   Railroad pictures from Tim Vermande
6)   GP-30's  (only one pix on there so far, sorree)
7)   RS-11’s – aka, DL-701’s 
8)   SD-90’s
9)   Stations and Depots of Maryland    Stations and Depots outside Maryland
10) Some of my Favorite Websites
11) Old Main Page Pictures
12) Google Satellite View Quiz
13) The merger map has been given its own page

American signals are cool, for sure, but don't be a signal snob…. check some of these websites out, we're not the only ones with cool signals!

1) Australia
        a) Wikipedia's entry for Australian signaling
        b) Signalbox's entry for Australian signaling
        c) Vicsig's page of Australian links
        d) SA Track and Signal
2) Austria and Switzerland
        a) Austrian and Swiss signals, in German and English
3) Belgium
        a) Belgian signal page
4) China
        a) Chinese hand and semaphore signals
5) Denmark
        a) An intro to Danish signals
        b) An updated version of the above site, by Carsten Lundsten
6) France
        a) Description of the signals used on TGV routes (no pix)
        b) Links to French (and other) signal websites, en Francais
        c) A detailed website on French signals by Xavier Geillon, en francais
        d) A very good website in English by Peter Bereczki
        e) Another website that just touches on French signaling
        f) Wikipedia's page on French Signaling
7) Germany
        a) An intro to German signals
        b) Detailed info on German signals
        c) More info on German signals
8) Great Britain
        a) Some info on British semaphore
        b) Wikipedia's 1st page of British RR Signals
        c) Wikipedia's 2nd page of British RR Signals
9) India (the IRFCA has a most excellent website on all aspects of Indian railfanning, BTW)
        a) Indian Railway signal FAQ'a
        b) Indian Railway signal aspects
        c) Indian Railway subsidiary signal aspects
10) Italy:
        a) General site on Italian signaling, in Italiano
        b) Wikipedia's page on Italian Railroad Signaling
11) Netherlands
        a) The NS signaling system
        b) A website in Dutch by Henk Bartels -signals and trains
12) Portugal
        a) Intro to Portugese signals, in Portugese and English
13) Sweden
        a) http://www.signalbox.org/overseas/sweden/signals.htm on older signals, in English, by Per Olofsson & John Hinson
        b) http://www.railroadsignals.us/visit.htm
14) All countries
        a) http://www.thesignalpage.nl/en/data.php  A master list of almost every railroad signaling website to be found on the net....
 

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