Toledo, Area, OH: Stanley (SA) Tower: CSX/TT vs. CSX/Big4/TOC

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I labeled the "town" Toledo Area because this area is still rural. Most of the development in the Toledo area is north of the Maumee River.

TT was Toledo Terminal and ran east/west through this junction. TOC was Toledo & Ohio Central. It became part of the Big Four and thus became part of the NYC. In addition to the north/south route that went south to Stanley Yard and then Fostoria, OH, TOC also had a route leaving this junction towards Findlay, OH. Since the TOC route to Fostoria paralleled the Hocking Value route to Fostoria, Penn Central abandoned it south of Stony Ridge.

Howie Castellucio posted

Howie's comment:
SA tower, Stanley tower just north of Stanley yard in Toledo.
Would visit old Bob Sapp. An original NYC operator!!!
I was there on one of his last days. Before he retired. He usually was a vocal character during work. That day......I think ol Bob just may have shed a tear somewhere during that last shift I visited him . On that warm Sunday morning in 1994. 
Pictures of the tower were taken that day. Old Bob wouldn't let me take a photo of him.
He always had a pot of hot coffee though. The spoon would almost stand up in it!

Howie Castellucio posted

Howie Castellucio posted

Skip Cubbedge posted "Inside Stanley Tower (And More!)" video. It is trains rolling by until 5:38, 7:28, 8:46 (but just talking and thinking), 11:48 (some coffee drinking). I had trouble hearing the conversations. But you can easily hear the "pounding of the diamonds."

Darren Reynolds posted six photos with the comment: "Conrails (EX-NYC)

"Stanley" tower 

Toledo,  Ohio"

Tim hanahan shared

Christopher Allen Howe: Model board is on display at Marion Union Station in Marion, Ohio

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"Stanley" tower was at the crossing of the NYC And the

TTRR..

Photo by: Dan Maners May 2001

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The model board at "Stanley" tower May 2001

Photo by: Dan Maners

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The interlocking machine at "Stanley" tower

Photo by: Trey Kunz May 2001

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"Stanley" tower on January 11, 1982... I wonder what this looks like today?

Photo by: C.H.Geletzke Jr.

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A TTRR caboose passes "Stanley tower 1989..

Photo by: Charlie Whipp

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A Conrail track and interlocking diagram for "Stanley"

Interlocking (tower)

James K. Meeker Sr: And the road to the tower next to yard E was called Sapp Avenue after a tower operator I worked with.

B Tupper Upham commented on Tim's share
Model board being lovingly restored by Pete White