Knox, IN: Junction Tower: NKP vs. NYC/III and NKP Watchtower & Depot

Junction: (Satellite)

Watchtower, current: (Satellite)

Depot, current: (Satellite)

Watchtower, original: (Satellite, east of Perl St. and between Bender St. and double tracks.)

Depot, original: (Satellite, it is now some NS shanties and a parking lot.)

Ken Durkel posted
X Tower, Knox, Indiana. NKP/NYC Kankakee Belt (Three I) crossing. M.D. McCarter photo collection. Nickel Plate train is eastbound. I believe the track adjacent to the main was a siding that no longer exists.
Brad Johnson What year would this be?
Ken Durkel Not sure, I would say mid 1950s. Adam St Germain would this tower have survived after CTC reached this portion of the NKP?
Adam St Germain I'm not sure how long that tower survived but the siding used to run through town to the east. In the 80s it was cut back to west of where the NYC diamond was to eliminate all the crossings in town. Judging from the signal in the background, the line was already CTC when this photo was taken.
Ken Durkel My 1952 timetable says at Knox, the east end of the westward and the west end of the eastward sidings at Knox were controlled by the Dispatcher Ft. Wayne. So CTC had reached Knox by at least 1952, though I don't think it had been extended completely west to Van Loon by 1952 yet.
Adam St Germain I found a website that states the tower was installed sometime prior to 1906, and made into an automatic interlocking by 1957. The diamond was removed in 1982.

Mark Egebrecht Berkshire!

According to the 2005 SPV Map, there where two "Knox IN" locations. There was this one and another that is not labelled by Google Map. That one was located where the abandoned Big Four track curved north of  Knightstown, IN.

Joseph Tuch Santucci posted six photos with the comment:

All along the watchtower. We’re in Knox, IN at a park at the north end of town at the location where the corner New York Central/Penn Central/Conrail Kankakee Belt Line used to come through town. The tall tower was that of the crossing watchman who controlled crossing signal along the Nickel Plate Road in town. This tower, the old NKP depot and the N&W caboose share their new neighborhood. 

9 December 2023

Dennis DeBruler: Thanks for providing some directions. The city's website was no help in finding "Knox Gateway." https://maps.app.goo.gl/6P5pgm6Yrq5aUGgs9

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Street View, Aug 2018

Apr 6, 1969 @ 24,000; AR1VCCF00010180