This is the south end of CB&Q's 1910 joint trackage rights over the C&EI. [Photo caption]
The UP has abandoned its route from here to Joppa, IL because it now uses trackage rights over the CB&Q. [2005 SPV Map]
p. 85, Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad In Color by Edward M. DeRouin has a 1973 photo of orders being hooped up to a BN train that includes the tower.
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| Photo via NorthAmericanInterlockings |
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| Stephen N. Brannon posted C&EI WV Tower, West Vienna, Illinois where C&EI Southern Illinois and CB&Q Southern Illinois lines diverged after CB&Q sharing C&EI from Neilson Tower 15.8 miles north of WV. C&EI color light train order board clear for northbound C&EI trains. No train order signal for CB&Q trains which always had to secure a Clearance at WV when operator on duty. Top semaphore signal cleared for southbound C&EI trains. Bottom semaphore for CB&Q. Richard Fiedler shared Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Historical Society shared |
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| Stephen N. Brannon posted Another shot of C&EI WV Tower, West Vienna, Illinois looking southward in early 1960s. Track straight ahead is C&EI to Cypress, Tamms, Thebes, and across the Mississippi River to Chaffee, Missouri. Track splitting to the left is CB&Q heading south to Metropolis and over the P&I Ohio River bridge to Paducah, Kentucky. Near Cypress the C&EI branch to Joppa split off primarily to funnel coal to the large Electric Energy, Incorporated steam power plant at Joppa. |
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