NorthAmericanInterlockings: Allen 1983 Wilhelm 1928 Wallenmeyer1 Wallenmeyer2 Shapotkin 1995(see below) interior
Chicago and Northern Indiana Railroad Interlocking Towers (click the marker for the correct information)
Mark Llanuza, scroll down
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| Mark Llanuza posted (Flickr copy) Its the year 1982 with northbound passing Canal street tower in Evanston IL with semaphores everywhere. |
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| 1938 Aerail Photos from ILHAP |
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| Karvey Kahler posted May, 1973. Canal, Evanston, IL. Suburban push-pull passes Canal tower along Green Bay Road, almost literally over the North Shore Sanitary Canal between Lake Michigan in Wilmette and the North Branch of the Chicago River in the Albany Park neighborhood. In a couple years after this photo was taken, the third track will be gone, intercity trains were not picked up by Amtrak and are gone already, and semaphores will be replaced briefly by searchlights before being replaced in turn by mast-mounted color light signals; but ATS will live on until PTC is active. |
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| Robert Daly posted CNW's Simpson St tower, corner of Green Bay Rd and Simpson St, Evanston, February 14 1987. This facility controlled the junction of the CNW North Line with the branch to Mayfair. Mike Lopina: Every weekday afternoon around 5:15ish a train would stop at Davis St, proceed to this junction and pull on to the wye of Mayfair branch to allow the express behind it to pass as this was where the CNW north line went from 3 tracks to 2. |
William Shapotkin posted two photos with the comment:
Here are a couple of pix of Canal Tower. Located in Evanston, IL, this tower controlled the junction of C&NW's Milwaukee Division (now UP's "Kenosha Subdivision") and the Weber Line. The tower is now history -- but was still-standing when I got pix of same in 1995.Jeff Grunewald Was freight run on that track when the Mayfair cutoff was functioning?
Scott Greig Jeff Grunewald yes--the Weber Sub had active freight customers as late as about 1985. I also remember ballast trains for the North Line operating through the junction bound for Weber Yard.
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d.w.davidson Flickr north side
worked there as an assistant signal maintainer in the 1983
ReplyDeletelots of history there