By Brian Solomon

From the 1830s to at the present time, the railroad has built myriad complicated mechanisms to assist retain North America’s railroad rights-of-ways secure, effective, and comparatively accident-free. during this paperback rerelease of the winning 2003 name, the otherwise-arcane global of railroad signaling is defined in concise language and taken to lifestyles with approximately two hundred remarkable pictures that depict signaling heritage and all points of contemporary operations. writer and photographer Brian Solomon brings his wealth of information and photographic expertise to a subject matter that has infrequently been tackled in booklet shape, but is essential to the yank railroad experience.

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