Saturday, March 29, 2025

Millbrook, OH: Pennsy Big Run Tower

(Satellite)

Darren Reynolds posted four images with the comment: "Conrails (Ex-PRR)
"Big Run" tower 
Millbrook, Ohio"
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The 2004 SPV Map marked "CP Big Run" as about halfway between east of Millbrook and Wooster. That put it a little north of where the Pennsy route bends.
1961/63 Holmesville and 1961/62 Wooster Quads @ 24,000

So I got an aerial photo in that vicinity and looked along the route. I found the shadow and roof of a tower on the north side of a railyard. It is in the upper-right corner of this excerpt.
Apr 21, 1951 @ 17,000; AR1PH0000040127

But it is out in farm fields that have changed a lot since 1951. But then I found a rectangle of trees to the west of the tower and an angle road northwest of the tower that still exist. The tower is on the right side of this excerpt.
Apr 21, 1951 @ 17,000; AR1PH0000040127

This is the comparable area on today's satellite map.
Satellite

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