“Stop!” orders the charming semaphore, and the freight train complies. This is Lod station in April 1992, and the train is occupying the formerly Palestine Railways main line to Haifa, now reduced to a secondary line. The diesel locomotive is ISR #102, built by SAFB in Belgium in 1952. Electric signaling has replaced the semaphore, and the locomotive too is all gone now.

Photo and scan by Alon Siton <a_siton@hotmail.com>