Pertaining to all railroading subjects, past and present, in the American Midwest, including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Kansas. For questions specific to a railroad company, please seek the appropriate forum.
Pertaining to all railroading subjects, past and present, in the American Midwest, including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Kansas. For questions specific to a railroad company, please seek the appropriate forum.
I am searching for the closing and demolition dates of the following towers, if they ever existed:
-St. Anne
-St. Elmo
-Dean Tower(Bloomington)
-Jacksonville
-Shattuc (still standing in 2001)
-Sandavol
-Ramsey
-Vandalia
-Marshall
-Robinson
-Charleston
-Litchfield
-Pana
-Starnes (Springfield)
-Glover
Starnes was closed in early 1982. If you go to my website www.angelfire.com/ns2/bones and go to the N&W page, then the SD40-2 section you'll see a picture taken from the tower in Aug 1981.
Thanks for the cool link. Do you know when the tower was demolished? Here are some more:
-Centralia
-Odin
-Midland City
-Kenny
-Taylorville
-Otto(south of Kankakee, still standing)
-Sorento
-Altamont
-Danville
-Hustle
-Mackinaw
I can help on Vandalia Twr. It is still standing and serves as the offices for the Vandalia railroad. They operate from a CSX St. Louis line connection adjacent to the tower north about 2 miles to serve some industries.
When it was removed from interlocking service, I do not know. Sometime in the early '80's I do believe.
There never was a tower at Mackinaw that I recall. Or Chatsworth or El Paso. The agents and operators in the depots handled the junction function. [/b]
