Peter James Paras posted 16 photos with the comment: "Not my photos. Tower A. Built by the Pennsylvania RR. Currently owned by Amtrak. Location: One of four towers for Penn Station in New York City, New York. Tower A controlled most of the west end of the station complex. Tower A was remote controlled to PSCC, Penn Station Control Center."
Steve Leunig: It’s still there. Pretty cool to walk around in!
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| 1 Tower A. Outside. That metal structure is overhead third rails. Not Catenary wire. Penn Station was all third rail when it was built. Overhead third rail was on the turnouts so locomotives would not stall, they had mini pantographs on top. |
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| 2 Tower A interlocking machine. |
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| 3 Tower A in service. |
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| 4 Tower A. You can see it outside. Before the post office was built over it. Yes it had a roof. |
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| 5 Tower A. Outside. The metal structure is overhead third rail. Penn Station was all third rail when it was built. Overhead third rails were on turnouts because of the gaps in third rail, locomotives had mini pantographs. |
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| 6 Tower A. Outside. The metal structure is overhead third rail. Penn Station was all third rail when it was built. Overhead third rails were on turnouts because of the gaps in third rail, locomotives had mini pantographs. |
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| 7 Tower A before it was closed. |
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| 8 Tower A I heard this photo was the last day it was in service. Photo by: Rich Gunther |
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| 9 Tower A closed. I heard the track model had switches that would move when you reversed a switch. |
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| 10 Tower A closed. Model board. |
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| 11 Tower A. Model board. |
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| 12 Tower A. Model board. |
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| 13 Tower A. Flood door controls. |
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| 14 Tower A Power control board. |
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| 15 Interlocking machine with dust on it. |
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| 16 Penn Station Track, signal and switch plans. Stephen Urban: It wasn’t called tower a, it was A Tower. I worked there on and off 73-80. |
Dan Kaplan posted three photos with the comment: "My father hired with Amtrak in 1977. He worked all of the towers in Sunnyside Yard and Penn Station, as well as Fair, Morris, and Grundy towers. He passed away last week. Here are a few pics of him at A Tower. He was Train Director at A. Also, a link to a video of him that was filmed for PBS. https://youtu.be/IO7CZxfIuRE?si=gryNSXQfaYCFTpty."
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| TrackPlan at 100% pdf via rrsignalpix |
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