East St. Louis, IL: CSX/Pennsy Rose Lake Yard and Junction (HN) Tower: ALS vs Pennsy+B&O

Technically, the yard is in Fairmont City, IL. The boundary is just below this yard. I'll go with William's comment because I knew where East St. Louis is, did not know where Fairmont City was.

William A. Shaffer posted
Rose Lake Roundhouse
Here is an undated photo of the Roundhouse and Turntable at the Pennsylvania Railroad's Rose Lake Yard in E. St. Louis, IL. (Photo by Floyd Richards - Collection of Richard Bynum)
Richard Mead Rural back then.

I wonder what the "square part" was north of the yard. Looking at the 1940 aerial, it must have been some other company. I wonder if they got a discount on their rail service by building to close to the yard.

Satellite

1940 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

1940 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

HN Tower

ALS = Alton & Southern, which was jointly owned by C&NW and MoPac. So it is probably owned by UP now.

CSX now owns the east/west routes.

Darren Reynolds posted five images with the comment:

Conrails ( EX-NYC) 

"HN" tower 

Rose Lake,Illinois

Tim Shanahan shared

Dennis DeBruler: Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/xFLs6GAwUFZ7V9kh7

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"HN" tower was at the crossing the Alton&Southern and

The B&O and Conrails St.Louis- Indianapolis line...

Photo by: Dan Maners March 2001

2

"Exermont" CTC machine at "HN" tower

Photo by: Dan Maners March 2001

3

"HN" towers interlocking machine (CTC machine)

Photo by: Dan Maners March 2001

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A Conrail track and interlocking diagram and interlocking machine information for "HN" tower

5

A little before Conrail in 1969 "HN" tower

Photo by: John Fuller

1954/59 Monks Mound Quad @ 24,000

This is the base map for the topo viewer app. I knew it made the mistake of using older names instead of contemporary names, but labeling the ALS route as Santa Fe is simply wrong.