Darren Reynolds posted five images with the comment: "'Conrails ( Ex-PRR)
'Mingo Jct' tower......Ohio."
Gavin Thunberg: Was located in the city of Mingo Junction, at the junction of the Pan Handle and River Line. This tower was used in the movie "Deer Hunter"
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| 1 June 1980 Photo by: Unknown |
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| 2 "Mingo Jct" tower March 1987 Photo by: Charlie Whipp |
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| 3 The interlocking machine and Operator's desk and blocking machine at "Mingo Jct" tower on June 29,1981 Photo by: David P. Oroszi |
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| 4 The other side of the interlocking machine at "Mingo Jct " tower on June 20, 1981 Photo by: David P. Oroszi |
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| 5 A interlocking diagram drawing and interlocking machine information for "Mingo Jct" tower Drawing by: Ed Spopobalski |
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| Leonard Hastings commented on the fourth photo Always interesting to see how signalling colleagues overseas worked. I retired in '23 after a long spell at Three Bridges Area Signalling Centre in SE England. That's panel 6 that looked after Brighton on the Sussex coast. The 'box" as we called it was 87 vintage. |
The blast furnace and ore bridge in the first photo above belonged to the Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Plant. I was surprised that the trees in the photo below have grown so tall where the tower used to be, so I fired up Google Earth. The tower was gone by the oldest usable image, Mar 1995; but there were just shrubs back then. The trees would come and go, but the blast furnace disappeared between May 2012 and Aug 2015.
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| Jon Wolfe posted via Dennis DeBruler |
I found the junction with this topo map.
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| 1968/78 Steubenville East Quad @ 24,000 via Dennis DeBruler |
And I found the tower with this aerial.
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| Apr 9, 1954 @ 29,000; AR1VEB000010006 |
And I confirmed that the branch went West through the mountains with this map.
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| 1951/51 Canton Quad @ 250,000 |
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