An old favorite railfan "Haunt" of Mine that I used to enjoy visiting whenever I could, was the old steam era Brighton Junction wich was located at South Archer and Western Avenues in Chicago's adjoining Brighton Park and Mc Kinley Park neighborhoods.
There were rumors floating around amongst the local Chicago area railfan community, that Brighton Junction would soon be losing it's old steam era manual Semaphore signals and control shanty. The Canadian National Railroad who utilizes the former east and west Illinois Central ex Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad line (Pre 1972.)
was about to modernize the old junction in upcoming months. (And they did.)
These old signals were on borrowed time and viewed in their last months of operating service back in early April of 2007. It was a good thing that I took this photo when I had the opportunity to do so.
This set of free standing signals stood just south of the crosstracks, and gaurded the east and west Canadian National line.
This view is facing east, just immediately south of the crosstracks that are out of view in this photograph.
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