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Darren Reynolds posted seven photos with the comment: "B&O HO tower Hancock, WV."
This tower controlled access to the branch to Berkeley Springs. It was between the crossover and the turnout to the branch. The branch followed the Warm Spring Run, and it still exists to the U.S. Silica Co. plant.
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| Mark Hinsdale posted Way Back Wednesday "Color Coordinated" A westbound CSX merchandise train with a couple "Stealth" liveried units in charge, passes the recently spiffed up "HO" Tower in Hancock WV, directly across the Potomac River from the "real" town of Hancock MD, in June, 1994. "HO" controlled the junction of the branch to Berkeley Springs with the former Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Cumberland Subdivision main line, along with eastward and westward sidings extending from here toward the west. At one time, this was four track territory for B&O. June, 1994 photo by Mark Hinsdale Mark Hinsdale shared Mark Hinsdale shared Anthony Bonelli: Slug set. |
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| Randy Voith posted August 8, 1985, the B&O (Chessie) mainline from Brunswick, Md. to Cumberland, Md., looking east at Hancock, WV. Photo taken from a signal bridge. A dead storage line is on the far left. The tower operator can be seen in the window of HO Tower. And the Berkley Springs branch goes off to the right just past the last crossover. Tim Shanahan shared Jim Kelling shared B&O “HO” tower (gone) in Hancock, West Virginia |
Darren Reynolds posted three photos with the comment: "B&O 'HO tower' Hancock
Hancock,WV. (MD)."
Dennis DeBruler
It evidently controlled the crossover and turnout for the Berkeley Springs branch. That branch still exists to the U.S. Silica Co. plant.
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| Marty Bernard posted 7. B&O GP40 3711 built Feb. 1969 and became SP 7110 then UP 5380 then UP 1480, seen May 1975 at at Hancock WV. Bill Howes photo |
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| 6 I always like seeing a photo that includes signaling pipelines. [The new Facebook allows you to write a comment, but when you hit enter you get a popup about joining the group.] |
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Darren Reynolds posted eight photos. I don't have time to figure out which one was new.
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| Steve Davison commented on the Aug 28, 2023, post and on a Mar 19, 2024 share My dad, Chester Davison, in this same tower. Probably in the late '50s. About 5 miles from my home. Precious memories going to work with him on midnight shift. |
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| Bob Weston posted B&O's HO Tower located in Hancock, WVa. ca. 1990. R J Weston photo, R J Weston collection. Jim Kelling: Tower was removed about 2010 or so. |
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| Stanley Short posted Baltimore & Ohio's HO tower at Hancock, WV on May 19, 1974. Randall Hampton shared Another tower with interesting letters. If you model HO scale, then every tower on your layout is an HO tower. 😉 Eric Tomlin: That photo actually looks like a model to me. The structure is so typically found on model railroad layouts that I suspect it was a very common style found in that part of the country. Randall Hampton: B&O standardized a lot. |
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| Steve Davison commented on Stanley's post Torn down years ago. My dad (in picture) was telegraph operator here for many years and took me to work with him occasionally. He had 40 years with the B&O/Chessie System. Precious memories. |
Curtis Tat posted four photos with the comment: "HO Tower, Hancock West Virginia, April 2005."
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| Sheldon Nicholas Photography posted The old station building at the CSX Hancock yard in West Virginia. Kevin William Jones: They are restoring the station only, not the tracks |
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| Street View, Sep 2023 |
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