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| Eric Berg posted [Comment was replaced by the following comment.] Eric Berg posted A northbound Milwaukee Road train comes over the C&EI diamond at Dewey Tower in the summer of 1969. The engineer reaches out for his train-orders that are in the fork. Dewey Tower was located on the north side of Terre Haute at MP 174.75. Call signs for the tower were "DE" and run by Milwaukee men. The 31-lever plant (13 levers for switches & derails, 6 levers for 8 locks and 2 crossing bars and 13 levers for 13 signals) was a Saxby & Farmer Machine installed in 1907. Maple Avenue spur came off and around the southeast quadrant of the diamond. I would say that the photo is looking south from 25th street. Photo by John Fuller. My guess is that this Milw southbound train #82, but I don't know for sure. It's a great shot. In those days, this was the clutter for railfans shots...cars, M-O-W trucks, telegraph poles and maybe even the train order signal. Nowadays, we love this stuff in these old shots. Leader appears to be MILW F7A #79-A which was built by EMD in December of 1949. Southbound Milw #82 Dewey Tower Terre Haute, Indiana Crossing of Milw/C&EI Circa Summer 1969 John Fuller Photograph Richard Fiedler sharedTim Shanahan shared |
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Hello Eric, these pages are great for info & history, THANK YOU.
ReplyDeletewhere did you get the satellite photo of Dewey at?? the tracks are still in place. Look on Google Earth on all years & they are there. I was there in 2018 & all lines were still in use.
also, the aerial is upside down, the electric boxes are on the northwest corner of the diamond, so the track piece missing is a north track. maybe they were replacing it.
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