The sign shape is rectangular but its head is designed according to the silhouette of the old building of the Gymnasia Herzliya, which serves as a logo of the Council for the Preservation of Heritage Sites in Israel
The locomotive and in front of it the sign in its entirety was photographed on the same day by the same photographer
Click for a larger image Translation of the text on the sign:
Symbol of the Council for the Preservation of Israeli Heritage Sites
The symbol of the electric company
The symbol of the Ministry of Culture and Sports
Israel Railways symbol
The symbol of Naharim at the bridge
Nahraim’s locomotive returned home [The pictures are from right to left and from top to bottom]
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Locomotive 353, built in 1917 in Leeds, UK and participated in World War I, in France. One of ten locomotives that were brought to Israel in 1928 to help build the Naharim power station.
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One morning in 1992, a member of Kibbutz Gesher looked out to the other side of the Jordan and noticed a piece of rusted metal lying in the field.
An examination revealed that this is one of the locomotives that built Narayim! His rescue was a long-running secret operation that ended only after the signing of the peace agreement with Jordan in 1994. It was the engineering soldiers of Central Command who managed the operation.
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The rusty locomotive parts were taken to a workshop in Kibbutz Ein Shemer for restoration and repair. The electrical company’s workshop also helped. The restoration of the locomotive was a closing of the circle, a payment of respect to the first workers of the electric company and the builders of the country
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The locomotive returned to "rattling" on the tracks in 2004 when Gesher’s children welcomed it.