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| Andre Tardif shared WVNC Rails posting
Where once the National Limited, Diplomat, Cincinnatian, Trailer Jets, and more passed. This 1965 view looks eastbound along the B&O Ohio Division at Grosvenor Tower just west of Athens, OH. This tower guarded the B&O St. Louis main junction with the New York Central Columbus Division (Columbus, OH-Swiss, WV) line into the Kanawha Valley.
In the distance is the girder plate bridge spanning the Hocking River and the west end of Athens. B&O operated Grosvenor Tower and it remained as a landmark here until destroyed by fire in 1982. In 1985, the B&O main line was downgraded with all through traffic rerouted or annulled. The Ohio Division trackage here remained active longer than the Parkersburg Branch in West Virginia but was also on borrowed time as the former B&O trackage here was removed in 1991. In contrast,the former NYC route lives on today as Kanawha River Railroad trains pass this very spot that is now a phantom junction. John G. King/Dan Robie collection
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Where the power line goes east in this street view is where the B&O route was. TOC was Toledo & Ohio Central, a subsididary of NYC. NS got this route when Conrail was split up. The steel girder bridge still exists.
Darren Reynolds posted five images with the comment: "B&Os Grosvenor 'AS' tower, Ohio."
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| SE Ohio Coal Mining - Family History posted Grosvenor tower on SR 682 by Athens in Athens Co. Ronald Sorrell Sr.: Can someone tell me the purpose of this tower. I've always wondered what they were for. David L White: It's an interlocking tower, it protected the crossing of the B&O and the New York Central railroads. The operator in the tower had control of signals and switches to allow trains to cross the diamond (an intersection of tracks letting one railroad cross another). I visited this tower once while a student at OU, sometime in the late fall of 1971. Today, all that remains is the north-south route of the Kanawha River, operating the old New York Central line. Vicky Kottyan: What was this by in Athens at 682? Was it near White’s Mill? Vicky Kottyan If you zoom back out, you can see where the B&O tracks used to be because of the treelines. The bridge for the B&O route across the river is now used by a trail. |
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| Mark Howell commented on the above post Grosvenor tower in 1972 when I lived up the road. Dennis DeBruler shared Note the arm sticking out from the back of the caboose. He is ready to catch the train orders that are on a string in the hoop that the tower operator is holding. |
Darren Reynolds posted five images with the comment: "B&Os Grosvenor 'AS' tower, Ohio."
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