Hagerstown, MD: Pennsy Hager & Town Junction Towers, both with WM and O. Winston Link Photos

Town: (Satellite, Al Moran commented on Darren's post: "The one story block building is still there. Was originally a two story wood tower. "TOWN" on the PRR and "NC" on the WM...")

Hager: (Satellite, the Pennsy route is now abandoned except for a remnant west of the junction, which is now probably just an industrial spur.)

Darren Reynolds posted three images with the comment: "Conrails ( Ex-PRR) 

"Hager" tower 

Hagerstown, Maryland"

Chad Winans: I believe this tower was the subject of photographer O. Winston Link.

Nickolas McKerrow: Chad WinansI looked this up, here's a link to several O. Winston Link photos in and around the tower.

https://hswv.pastperfectonline.com/bysearchterm?keyword=Hager%20Tower

Tim Shanahan shared

Ronald George: Wow a corvair sitting there.

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"Hager" tower was at the crossing of the the Winchester branch and the Western Maryland connection track to the N&W.. There was 2- Conrail towers in Hagerstown

The other was "Town" tower on the other end of

Hagerstown.. I don't have any pictures of "Town" tower

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"Hager" tower with the WM connection Abandon..

I don't know when the tower was closed..but at was Razed in 1984..

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A PRR track and interlocking diagram and interlocking machine information for "Hager" tower..Hagerstown, Md.

Hager Tower was on the south side of town, and Town Tower was on the north side.

1953/54 Hagerstown Quad @ 24,000

The 1953/56 topo map looks the same, but the 1971/72 map shows the N&W+Pennsy route was moved west one block from Walnut Street to the east side of the WM route.

1971/72 Hagerstown Quad @ 24,000

Hager is near the lower-left corner and Town is near the upper-right corner.

Oct 19, 1952 @ 60,000; ARB593500500333, at photo resolution

Lower-left corner tripled in size.

It looks like the N&W + Pennsy route has already been moved west one block.

Upper-right corner tripled in size

OWL2007.04.798 via hswv, 1 of several of Link's photos on this page
"Black and white negative of NW 798. Backing past Hager Tower, Hagerstown, Maryland. Train No. 1 at Hager Tower. Locomotive #130 backing pas Hager Tower in Hagerstown, MD, in a light snow. This must have been one of the first photos with the new flash equipment, very nice photo. Used in Steam, Steel & Stars."