Some Facebook comments refer to "North Cairo," but the 2005 SPV Map and other comments disagree with "North Cairo." The junction is at the wye of a short connector to another wye at the CN/IC/ICG/GM&O/Mobile & Ohio. Evidently the IC tower controlled the turnouts of the M&O wye as well.
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Mike Sypult posted
North Cairo, Illinois on the IC. Clyde L. Anderson photo. Undated. |
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Tommy Sowell posted
Dad doing his thang.
This was one of the motors ,that ended up being used for some merger advertisement pics.
Jimmy Smallwood I remember one day we were standing out in front of the callers office and you dad had his grip setting on the ground there and Glen McCullar came up in his vehicle and ran over it.
John P. Kohlberg posted a copy of Clyde's photo above pointing out that the rip-rap cars above look similar to the rip-rap cars in the background to the left of the Cairo Tower. |
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John P. Kohilbert commented on Tommy's posting.
[Note the GM&O marking. They had some yard tracks along the river back then. I wonder if these cars are kept here on standby in case they need to do any emergency repairs of a washout somewhere in Southern Illinois.] |
It looks like the tower also controlled the entrance to a small yard inside the wye along the IC mainline. This connection between the M&O and the IC would have been used by all through M&O trains because
they used the IC bridge over the Ohio River.
The GM&O is down to just one track along the river and it looks like it is used for storage.
CN must use the M&O tracks into Cairo for storage because the satellite image caught them with a lot of covered hoppers on the track even though its route to Bunge
is now broken. But since both the M&O and the IC routes are now owned by CN, they could easily pull that string north and then shove it over the wyes to the former IC track that still serves the Bunge plant.
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