Gary Sams posted |
Jacksonville, Illinois Wabash, GM&O and CB&Q Tower Jack Keefe photo 3-13-1978(Update: roundhouse has a topo map.) From the comments we learn this is looking east towards Springfield and Decatur. So we must be looking down the Wabash track and the tower is on the south side. Note the semaphores for signalling train orders and the "iron man" for holding the hoops.
Jacob Hortenstine the levers and some other items from that tower are now in the tower at Ramsey
Jacob Hortenstine shared the posting and got the comment: John LaRochelle Tower was manned by Decatur Division Wabash/Norfolk and Western/Norfolk Southern operators. Looks like the Wabash train order signal indicates train orders in both directions.
1941 Aerial Photo from ILHAP |
Alton went straight north through town until it curved off after Lafayette Avenue. It has a tree line for a couple of blocks before a farmer's field claims the RoW. But it was this diagonal tree line that first caught my eye of where the abandoned Alton was north of town. KCS now owns the Alton south of town. CB&Q is easy to trace because it still exists as BNSF. Likewise, the Wabash is now NS.
Satellite |
1941 |
In my 1928 RR Atlas, this seventh spoke was labeled J&H. In the 2005 SPV Map it is a dashed line labelled JH(CPStL). The Appendix indicates JH was the Jacksonville & Havana and the CPStL was Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis, later CCStL, CIM, ITS and JH. The CPStL went north of Havana to East Peoria and it is now the IMRR (Illinois & Midland).
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