Tower Photo (NYC): (Satellite)
Tower B&O: (Satellite, US-50 is wider and the tracks have moved a lot since the 1950s.)
Triple Crossing: (Satellite, the middle level NYC tracks are now gone. See aerial photo below.)
Darren Reynolds posted two photos with the comment: "B&Os 'RS' tower... (Storrs Jct) Cincinnati, Ohio."
Tim Shanahan shared
Bob Zoellner: Storrs was a yard and telegraph office and cobtrolled access to the riverfront track that used to run to the pre-Cinti Union Terminal B&O depot at 5th & Baymiller streets along witb riverfront industries
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Darren's post I think North American Interlockings, https://www.northamericaninterlockings.com/ohio_11.html, has a mistake. The riverside tower was NYC, and the attached was B&O. Actually, the riverfront tower controlled both NYC and B&O passenger trains headed to CUT. |
The railyard used to be rather big and US-50 (6th Street) was rather small.
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| May 3, 1949 @ 14,000; AR1IP0000160165 |
"A little-known location in the area was the tri-level crossing, similar to the one in Richmond, Virginia. This was on the banks of the Ohio, at the East end of B&O’s Storrs’ Yard. The B&O’s St. Louis line (ex-Ohio&Mississippi, ex-B&O Southwestern) ended at their depot located on Cincinnati’s riverfront. This depot was later abandoned in favor of other facilities, and the stub became an industrial lead along the riverfront. This B&O lead was at ground level, and the Cincinnati Union Terminal’s Southwest Connection (for passenger trains to/from the B&O and New York Central) passed over it on a viaduct. Over both of these was the Southern’s (ex-Cincinnati Southern, ex-Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific) Ohio River bridge. Today, only the B&O lead and Southern Bridge remain, the CUT’s bridgework being removed in the late 1970’s." [trains]
I think the B&O Storrs Tower is on the left side of this excerpt and the triple crossing is on the right side. The track closest to the river is the branch controlled by the riverfront tower that uses the middle level through the crossing. The next track from the river is the branch controlled by the B&O Storrs Tower that accessed the predecessor depot and B&O's riverfront customers. That track is the ground level of the triple crossing. The top track of the crossing was the NS/Southern Bridge.
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| May 3, 1949 @ 14,000; AR1IP0000160165 |
The riverfront tower was further downstream. I include the stadium that is in Kentucky to help correlate the position of the tower with today's satellite images. Specifically, the tower was west of the northern part of the stadium.
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| May 3, 1949 @ 14,000; AR1IP0000160165 |
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| 1955 Covington Quad @ 24,000 |
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