Cherry Creek, NY: 1896 Preserved/Erie Depot

(Satellite)

Roger Smith posted four photos with the comment: "Cherry Creek, NY along the Erie, 48 miles south of Buffalo."

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In Roger's second photo, I saw a logo for NY&LE. That railroad offers tourist train rides.

I thought 6764 looked like an Alco diesel. This webpage confirmed that.

RailPictures, Nick Dixon, 2024
"Alcos in a Winter Wonderland. With plenty of snow for the occasion, New York & Lake Erie's beautiful pair of MLW cab units, FPA-4 6764 and FPA-2u 6758, approach the Jolls Road crossing in Dayton with the last of three holiday trains they were running on that day."

This map accurately marks the location of the depot.

1954/56 Cherry Creek Quad @ 24,000

Columbus, OH: East Columbus (NY) Tower: (B&O+Pennsy) vs. NYC/TOC

(Satellite)

TOC = Toledo & Ohio Central

I used "B&O+Pennsy" notation in the title because this mainline was jointly owned by B&O and Pennsy. B&O was the original owner, and B&O built and staffed the interlocking towers.  [ColumbusRailroads_pom] According to a USGS map, Columbus & Ohio River is the current owner.

Darren Reynolds posted four photos with the comment: "B&O/PRR    'NY' tower (East Columbus) Columbus, Ohio"

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"NY" tower had a mechanical interlocking machine

A B&O Switcher passing by 1968

Photo by: Bob McCord

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A B&O GP-30 passing "NY" tower (East Columbus) with a long train October 19, 1973

Photo by: David P. Oroszi

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"NY" tower ( East Columbus) in this picture you can see the pipeline for the switches and the NYC Dimond..

Photo by: John Fuller collection

[Note the signalling pipelines at various intervals down by the crossover switches.]

ColumbusRailroads

"East Columbus interlocking Tower located 4.7 miles from Columbus Union Station on the PRR-B&O Columbus and  Newark Division.  The camera is looking east toward Summit.  Stelzer Road  is over head.  The NYC (T&OC) is crossing the three track PRR/B&O Main line.  The T&OC line is coming from Truro to the south.  It served several customers north of the  crossing including the Ralston Steel Car Co. and ends just west of Woodland Ave.  Photo by John Fuller from the Collection of John Fuller."

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"NY" tower (East Columbus) not looking good..

Photo by Chip Syme

All images from North American interlockings States A to Z and Canada ..

Darren Reynolds posted five images and this was the new image.

John Riddle: My first day on the railroad was spent at East Columbus. By that time, 1979, the NYC (former T&OC) crossing was gone. The main tracks were C&N Division were joint B&O and PRR. Tbe highway beidge carried James Rd over tbe railroad.

Tim Shanahan shared

Mar 1, 1953 @ 18,000; AR1XM0000010204

Division Diagram via ColumbusRailroads

Oostburg, WI: Lost/C&NW Depot

(Satellite, CO Rd AA used to be just south of Center Ave.)

Chicago & North Western Historical Society posted
Just a neat photo of the C&NW depot at Oostburg, Wisconsin.  Oostburg is located just to the south of Sheboygan, Wisconsin.  It is just west of Lake Michigan.  That is a classic C&NW "speeder" seen at the right of the photo.  Is the section crewman who was using the speeder to be seen in the photo?  CLUE - Look at the top of the pole!  This is an R M Clark photo.

Dwight Smith: I like that "wig-wag" railroad signal. I actually saw one in action in Chetek WI when we vacationed there in 1970. It was the C&NW as well.

Mike Page: I'm thinking that would be either a signalman or a lineman/electrician at the top of the pole; sectionmen didn't have the responsibility of maintaining pole lines. As I worked in the signal department on the C&NW and with the section crew and extra gangs with the Milwaukee Road. My father was a lineman electrician with the C&NW.

P.S. Those speeders were a bear to start if those two small boxes in front, seen at wheel height, didn't have six (3 per box) semi-fresh cylindrical dry cell batteries. I speak from experience, as I also pushed on for about 3, 39' rails lengths while the Signalman tried popping the clutch and feathering the throttle on a cold morning in Cyman Junction, Wisconsin one cold morning.

Bruce Rutherford: While board and batten depots were not stylish, this depot has class.❤️👍

Sam Garty, Jan 2024

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Wood River, IL: Wood River Tower: Illinois Terimal vs. GM&O vs. Big Four

(Satellite, the tracks and Ferguson Ave. have shifted since 1951.)

Richard Crabtree posted four images with the comment:

Here we see TRRA Terminal Railroad Association GM&O / IC / IT Interlocking Tower in Wood River. Kinstra Concrete is in the background.

Photo 1) RRA Terminal Railroad Association GM&O / IC / IT Interlocking Tower Wood River, Illinois Mid - 1970s

Unknown Photographer

Photo 2) March 1920 Sanborn Map ~ courtesy LOC

Photo 3) Illinois Terminal Switching Tower 1940s

Photo 4) Inside the Illinois Terminal Switching Tower 1974

Andy Brown: Would be IT not TRRA.

Bill Edrington: That’s right. If the photos were taken in 1974, the three railroads at Wood River Tower would have been the IT, ICG (former GM&O) and PC (former NYC/Big Four). The BN (former CB&Q) had trackage rights on the ICG and PC.

Cliff Kierstead shared

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1951/51 Wood River Quad @ 24,000

1941 Aerial Photo from ILHAP

Hartford, CT: 1889,1990s Amtrak/NYNH&H Union Station

(Satellite)

It was completed in 1889, and during the 1980s it "underwent a phased rehabilitation." [GreatAmericanStations]

Street View, Jul 2017

Ummea Salma, Jun 2022

Jim MacKey posted
Interior of Hartford, CT station

All the railroad routes in this town were NY,NH&H.

1952/54 Hartford North and South Quads @ 31,680

Summit, NJ: DL&W Interlocking Tower

(Satellite)

Darren Reynolds posted six photos with the comment:

Conrails (EX- DL&W)

"Summit" tower, New Jersey

Tim Shanahan shared

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Sam Calciotti commented on Darren's post

Wow! Never knew about the water tower on top.

Here’s a pic from just a few days ago…

The roof was removed and replaced with a flat roof in the last few years, my brother is in B&B Department and worked on the roof project. With most of the roof gone you can see steel beams in an octagon shape around the top, I’m guessing that was to support the water tower portion.

Dennis DeBruler: Sam Caliciotti Is the overpass for Summit Ave.? If so, the tower is obscured by trees.

After Sam didn't respond, I was able to find this street view that confirms the satellite location.

Street View, Oct 2020

Elkins, WV: WVC/(WM+B&O) Depot & Roundhouse and Feed Mill

Depot: (Satellite)

Roundhouse: (Satellite)

Feed Mill: (Satellite)

Street View, Oct 2015

Mountain Rail WV offers the "Elkins Murder Mystery Wine Train" ride from this depot. The "New Tygart Flyer" also runs from this depot. That is a 4-hour, 46 mile round trip.

Howard Waggoner, Feb 2023

 Jeff Honaker (RealJeffedUP), Apr 2024

Doug Nelson posted

38°55'29"N 79°51'07"W

Elkins, West Virginia

Michael McKenzie commented on Doug's post
If I'm not mistaken the turntable at Frostburg came from there.

 Jeff Honaker (RealJeffedUP), Apr 2024

The mill is home to the West Virginia Railroad Museum and the Appalachian Forest Discovery Center.

Street View, Sep 2023

The depot is in the right background.

Street View, Sep 2023

According to a topo map and the 2004 SPV Map, all four railroad "spokes" were WM. The spoke to the west was the Coal & Coke (C&C), which became the B&O. Evidently the western spoke was shared by WM and B&O.

1969/71 Elkins Quad @ 24,000

Bloomer, WI: Lost/C&NW Depot, Wood Grain Elevator and Feed Mill

Depot: (Satellite?)

Wood Grain Elevator: (Satellite)

Feed Mill: (Satellite)

Chicago & North Western Historical Society posted
Someone wanted to see a photo of the C&NW in Bloomer, Wisconsin.  Here is a good one.  For non rail fans, the thing is the center is the water column used to fill steam engine tenders with water from the tank in the left rear of the photo.

Richard Fiedler: Mail Crane to the right foreground to catch mail pouches on the fly.

Street View, May 2024

A Master Mix sign

Street View, May 2024

Note the feed truck at the feed mill.

Street View, May 2024

The other side of the feed mill.

Street View, May 2024

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The dark rectangle parallel to the tracks that is just north of 15th Ave. is a good candidate for the depot. It has a white line north of the building that would agree with the platform in the photo at the top. But I would expect to see 15th Ave. in the foreground of that photo, and I don't. Thus I'm not willing to say the depot was here.

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