Freight trains as well as passenger trains ran past the semaphores. This was the eastbound "Ice Cold Express," a special train of refrigerated RoadRailers. |
These semaphores were still working in
Colorado in 2000.
They were later replaced with more modern "searchlight" signals. |
Amazingly, semaphore signals dating from the 1920s were controlling one of the railroad's newest and fastest trains. |
Further down the line in Colorado, the RoadRailer train passed one of the newer style "trilight" signals that were replacing the semaphores. |