Edward Bridges
posted three pictures with the comment:
Neilson Junction, junction point of the Union Pacific's former Chicago & Eastern Illinois with the BNSF's former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. This junction is 8 miles south of Marion, Illinois. This junction was unique because from 1911-1989, it was guarded entirely by semaphore signals.
The tower was built in 1911 by the C&EI, demolished by UP in 1989. Between myself and two other friends, we saved quite a few things from this tower, to include both signs, plant timer, number fobs from all the levers as well as the framed manipulation (shown in last image). I was given the manipulation by the fellow who was the signal foreman who closed the tower almost 25 years after he took it down from the tower when he saw this picture.
First two images by Edward Bridges, last image by the late Brian Shafer.
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The C&EI is on the east side and was easy to find because of the fresh ballast. The CB&Q on the west side was harder to find because its grey ballast blends in with the farm fields. I put a red rectangle around the tower's location.
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