A favorite local Chicago railfan haunt of mine in recent years past, was Brighton Junction. Brighton Junction was a unique and technologically outdated manual steam era crosstrack junction located near South Archer and western Avenues. This is how the old junction looked like in it's final months of service, before the semaphore signals and operators shack was replaced by automatic signals. The old plant was closed in early July of 2007.The tall semaphore signals to the left were to be destined to a museum in the State of Virginia, while the smaller set seen just barely above the roof of the shanty, were to be destined for eventual display along with the shanty to the Illinois Railway Museum located in Union Illinois. Brighton Junction was a place where past met present.
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