Detour: (
Satellite, according to the track diagram and aerial photo below.)
Bonna: (
Satellite, a connector to the B&O tracks used to fork off here.)
Darren Reynolds
posted three images with the comment:
Conrails ( Ex-PRR)
"Detour" tower
Niles, Ohio
Jacqueline Crandall Fafrak: Hot metal trains ran through here in the early 80s.
Gerald Wills: The go to area once they decimated the EL.
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Niles Junction is near the left and the
depot is right of center.
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1954 Girard and 1959 Warren Quads @ 24,000 |
Bonna Junction
I thought that this tower was at Bonna Junction. It is somewhere else.
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Gerald Wills commented on a post A bad ektachrome slide scan, but lasted into the early 1980's.
Josh Cohen: It was joint/trackage rights from Ravenna to Niles junction with prr and B&O. Tom Barnett: And NYC trackage rights for a half dozen thru freights. Dennis DeBruler: Tom Barnett So a NYC engineer would have to learn the rule book for PRR and B&O as well as NYC? |
According to that track diagram, the tower was between the fork in the tracks and the Mahoning River on the north side of the tracks. But I can't find it. Yet Gerald's photo indicates it should still exist in 1970. Then I noticed that there is not a tower symbol on the track diagram. So I think Gerald's photo is further west of here after the Pennsy joins the B&O in
Niles Junction.
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