B&O CR Tower

The CR Tower was just west of the B&O Calumet River Bridge.

Scott Griffith posted some pictures with the comment: "Only pictures I know of, of this tower."
Gary Golden CR (Calumet River) Tower, just south on 95th st. Bridge. The B&O tower (16th street bridge) at 16th and Lumber St. Was over the Chicago River the operator also controlled the Airline bridge.

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Gary Golden The elimination of 4.2 jobs CR Tower.
Scott Griffith They hold tower men senority, so they would just make a senority move to the next desired tower. Then when all towers were gone, I think they fell into Clerks senority and possible yardmaster senority.

Third picture in a posting by Scott Griffith
[Fortunately it was early spring and the leaves don't hide the tower.]

1938 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

You can see the tower, and its shadow, in the upper-left corner of this excerpt of a 1938 aerial photo.

Some comments on another posting by Scott Griffith:
Rich Thielman This tower was only about 2 blocks away from Lake Michigan. It had windows on all four walls, and there usually was a nice breeze blowing through. Also, if you saw a big cruiser coming with pretty girls in bikinis on the deck, you could put the bridge down for a while and walk out and chat with them. LOL
Rick Smith ..That's whatcha call "leveraging" a meet.