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| Dennis DeBruler shared
Tony Howe shared this photo to the group: Illinois Central/Gulf Mobile & Ohio/Illinois Central Gulf Memories. His comment:
Looking north from the new Woodrow Wilson overpass ca1938-40 at North Jackson, MS. The railroad called this point where the line to Canton and the line to Yazoo City split "Asylum".
Thomas Dorman The coaling tower is probably one built by the Ogle Company for IC in 1915, with a 500-ton capacity.
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Note a water tower as well as the coaling tower. Wood towers were probably much more common than I had guessed because only the concrete ones have survived to the 21st Century.
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On a satellite image, we see the turntable still exists. In fact, it looks like they built a couple of new stalls on the roundhouse footprint. If they needed long stalls, why not build them just a couple more stalls clockwise from their current position and avoid having to build "wedge" ends?
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