CSX's Avon, Ind./Big Four Yard to Lafayette, Ind., turn J726 charges southbound through the intermediate semaphores just north of Linden, Ind. The semaphores and pole line are scheduled to come down in early 2009, rendering this scene rather barren in the future.
Photos showing the railroad pole lines. The pole line used four basic electrical circuits - telegraph, telephone, signaling, and power. Modern technologies of fiber optics, microwave, radio, satellite, and computers have been replacing the pole lines.