• CSX super signal bridge in Landsdowne MD

  • Discussion of the operations of CSX Transportation, from 1980 to the present. Official site can be found here: CSXT.COM.
Discussion of the operations of CSX Transportation, from 1980 to the present. Official site can be found here: CSXT.COM.

Moderator: MBTA F40PH-2C 1050

  by gprimr1
 
In Landsdowne MD for trains approaching the port of Baltimore on the B&O mainline, there is a signal bridge that is 3 signals high for each track. It replaced an old B&O signal.

How does one read this signal? I noticed tonight a train stopped with a signal of "Green-Red-Red" (top to bottom).

I'd also like to know why there is only one active signal for southbound trains? I thought the B&O was 2-4 tracks.

  by MBTA F40PH-2C 1050
 
the signal u described means Clear track ahead and the train can proceed, theres a website with some signal descriptions but i dont have the link, google NORAC signals, and u should be able to find it

  by CSX Conductor
 
Here's a link to NORAC signals. Many of them are the same as CSXT signals. :wink:

  by FarmallBob
 
There's a nice summary chart of CSX signal aspects, names and indications here:

http://www.amdg.ws/Seaboard%20Signals.pdf

  by gprimr1
 
That was very interesting. Say, does anyone know what the giant signal bridge protects? Is it an interlocking? I'm rarely there in daylight and it looks like the tracks go from 4-2.

  by MBTA F40PH-2C 1050
 
if the tracks do go from 4-2, then yes its a interlocking

  by CB&Q Fan
 
There are 4 tracks in Landsdowne with 1 of them a storage track. Tracks 1 & 2 are the tracks of the Capitol subdivision headed to Washington DC and the third is the Old Main Line headed to Point of Rocks. There is track work going on towards Halethorpe that is supposed to extend the storage track down to Saint Denis. It also moves the interlocking down closer to the MARC station in Saint Denis.