Ball signal at Whitefield, N.H.

Ball signal at Whitefield, N.H.

By Angela Cotey | November 29, 2022

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


As the caboose of a Maine Central train passes, the operator resets the ball signals at the Maine Central/Boston & Maine crossing at Whitefield, N.H., in 1979. This was the last surviving ball signal in commercial use on a U.S. railroad.
Ben Bachman photo

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