Springfield, OH: East Street (YK) Junction Tower: DT&I vs. Big Four

(Satellite, according to Scott's map below, it was closer to York Street than East Street.)

Tyler Dixon posted four photos with the comment:

NYC/ Big Four East St tower

Springfield, OH

Interchange with the DT&I

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Scott Heiden commented on Tyler's post

Rich Giles posted via Dennis DeBruler

South Charleston, OH: Junction Tower: Pennsy vs DT&I and Trailhead/DT&I Depot

Tower: (Satellite, the topo map implies the northeast quadrant and that is consistent with the photos if the Pennsy was double tracked and the DT&I was single tracked.)

Depot: (Satellite)

The yellow building on the right was a depot and the cabooses are setting on a remnant of the DT&I. The tower was out-of-frame to the left. This "history park" is now the trailhead for the Prairie Grass and Ohio to Erie Trails. Both of these trails use the connector and Pennsy route west of the junction.

Street View, Jul 2019

Tyler Dixon posted four photos with the comment:

Pennsylvania Railroad/ DT&I tower

South Charleston, OH

The PRR C&X line was torn up in 1988 to the west and torn up between here & London, OH in 1993. 

The DT&I is now part of the Indiana & Ohio Railway plus a rebuilt section of the PRR to service Sunrise Cooperative at both of their grain elevators.

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[This is old enough to sow some signalling pipelines.]

Matt Stevenson, Aug 2021

1961/63 South Charleston Quad @ 24,000

Lima, OH: Lost/DT&E Depot

If you are here because of "Lima, OH: Lost/Sugar Street Junction Tower: Pennsy vs. DT&I," then you need to go there.

(Satellite, the land has been reused.)

Michael Engle posted
D,T &I depot and office in Lima Ohio

The 2005 SPV Map indicates it was at the north end of the curve. This map shows that would have been by Eureka Street.

1961/62 Lima Quad @ 24,000

The aerial shows it was in the southwest quadrant of Eureka and the tracks.

Aug 1, 1952 @ 69,000; ARA000950020253

It was gone by the time a high-resolution aerial was taken.

Apr 16, 1971 @ 24,000; AR1VCRG00020013

Jackson, OH: DT&I Railyards, Backshop and Roundhouse

Classification: (Satellite, not only is the yard gone, but so is the mainline.)

Backshop: (Satellite)

Roundhouse: (Satellite)

DT&I = Detroit, Toledo & Ironton

Mike Boyle posted seven photos with the comment: "The Detroit, Toledo and Ironton operated an  extensive repair facility and freight yard in Jackson, Oh. from 1906-1984 when it was closed. The site operated freight car repair shop and painting facility, roundhouse and freight yard."

Richard Fiedler shared

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A different exposure of the seventh photo above.

Stephen Preston posted
DT&I Car Shops. Jackson, Ohio. C. 1940's/50's.
Richard Fiedler shared

 

Kevin Lewis commented on Stephen's post
Here's the same building last Sunday [Oct 27, 2024].

 

Dennis DeBruler commented on Richard's share
It is extant, https://maps.app.goo.gl/EtaCZRxbCNbJ1wB4A.

It is interesting that DT&I had a bypass around the town.

1961/63 Jackson Quad @ 24,000

I couldn't find any "repair facilities" in the obvious DT&I yard west of Chillicothe Street. But this aerial photo shows some obvious repair facilities over by the B&O tracks. According to the 2005 SPV Map, DT&I and B&O shared the tracks to the southeast, so that must be how DT&I accessed this facility.

Apr 22, 1960 @ 28,000; AR1VAAY00070044

Digitally Zoomed

The backshop buildings and roundhouse are extant, but Google Maps doesn't label who owns them.

Satellite

Obviously, someone is using them.

Street View, Jun 2023

We can see just the side of the roundhouse on the left.

Street View, Nov 2021

Toledo, OH: CSX/DT&I Temperance Railyard and Former General Mills

Railyard: (Satellite)

Food Plant: (Satellite)

Tanner James posted
This behind the old General Mills
Doug Tagsold: Former DT&I yard Howie Castellucio: The DT&I Temperance yard. It's original layout had 32 tracks. With the abandonment of the original main line in the early 60s. I'm not sure of when tracks were removed or even if the DT&I ever built the yard completely. Lukas Irons: looks like a transload for what customer? David Jordan: Lukas Irons I'd guess car storage here. General Mills is now Hometown Food. I don't know if animal fat is still transloaded near W. Laskey Road or the "auto shredder residue" (ASR) is still loaded near the GM plant.

It appears that just the corporate name has changed, they still make Pillsbury and other brands. [HometownFoodCompany]

This would have been the interchange yard between DT&I and the Toledo Terminal Railroad. The DT&I is abandoned north of the GM plant. (And it looks like the GM plant no longer has rail service.) The TT is now owned by CSX, and it is abandoned west of this yard.

1952/54 Toledo Quad @ 24,000

Springfield, OH: Maitland (NY) Tower: Erie vs. DT&I, Both Freight Houses and Erie Depot

(Satellite, the drawing below shows that the tower was in the west quadrant.)

Viral Media posted
One of New York Central's RF-16 "Sharknose" units passes Maitland tower and crosses the tracks of the Detroit, Ohio and Ironton in Springfield, Ohio. Photo taken in October of 1955. Via the J. Parker Lamb collection.
James Evans: Erie Railroad with NYC trackage rights train operating on it.

Brian A Morgan: Detroit, Toledo & Ironton.

Tim Shanahan shared

Darren Reynolds posted seven images with the comment: "Erie Lackawanna's "Maitland" tower (NY)    Springfield,  Ohio"

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"Maitland " tower was at the Junction (Dimond) of the

DT&I RR.. Aug. 18, 1974

Photo by: Steve Salamon

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A Penn Central freight train just hit the Dimond at ELs

" Maitland " tower on Aug. 18,1974

Photo by: Steve Salamon

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The interlocking machine and the model board at "Maitland" tower. 

I'm not sure what the green lever Is used for??

Photo by: Phil Albano June 16,1977

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A EL train passes "Maitland" tower on this cold day

In 1974

Photo by: David P. Oroszi

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looking down the tracks at " Maitland" tower on August 18,1974

Photo by: Steve Salamon

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An early picture of "Maitland " tower

Photo & Date: Unknown

[It still has the signaling pipelines. Another indication that this photo is rather old is that there are boxcars delivered to a siding by an industry. Now, almost all industrial sidings have disappeared.]

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A Drawing of the Maitland Area

Drawing by: Tom Winter

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

[The North arrow should be slanted a to the left.

This drawing also marks the locations of both freight houses and Erie's depot]

The junction was on the far west side of town.

1955/56 Springfield Quad @ 24,000

12 photos of EL vs. DT&I, Maitland (NY)

Lapeer, MI: Amtrak/GTW Depot & 3 Preserved Cabooses and Junction (G) Tower: GTW vs. MC

Depot: (Satellite)

Tower: (Satellite, according to Charles' photo below, it was catty-corner from the depot.)

For once, Amtrak uses the cute little depot that was already in the town.

Street View, Jun 2022

Street View, Jun 2022

Charlie Whipp posted
Another one to cool you off this morning, caught on a morning coffee run after an overnight snow storm. The old Grand Trunk station at Lapeer has seen many beautiful winter mornings like this in its 123 year history.
Dennis DeBruler shared

Dennis DeBruler posted two street views with the comment: "Lapeer, MI, preserved their depot and some cabooses. (The GT is privately owned, but shared with the public.) And Amtrak uses the preserved depot. The Grand Trunk ran east/west through town and the Michigan Central went north/south. And the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton was in southeast Michigan."

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The Michigan Central went north/south through town just east of the depot. CN uses a remnant of the southern spoke as an industrial spur to Delta Faucet Company. In a satellite image, I saw three covered hoppers spotted next to the plant. They are probably carrying plastic pellets.

1963 Lapeer Quad @ 24,000

This is probably a feed mill. Note the little locomotive on the left side. And the circular foundation for an abandoned grain bin.

Satellite

Looking past that bin foundation, we can see the locomotive.

Street View, Jun 2022

Does the locomotive service the feed mill and/or the Delta Faucet Company?

Satellite

Michigan Railroad History Conference posted
The interlocking tower at Lapeer between Grand Trunk Western’s main line and the former Michigan Central Bay City Branch; circa 1974

Charlie Whipp: a 24 hour operation and manual block station for the Michigan Central.

Here's an over view of the scene looking west at Lapeer Jct. 1979 https://www.flickr.com/photos/charliewhipp/48087845752/in/dateposted-public/

Tim Shanahan shared

Note the wood grain elevator behind the depot.

Charlie's Flickr

Night shift at Lapeer

While scanning negatives this morning, I came across this companion shot to another (seen here: www.flickr.com/photos/20517853@N06/46365299225/in/datepos... )view of the tower at Lapeer Jct. MI (GTW-NYC) looking west, the opposite direction as one I had posted previously. Taken in Feb. 1979, a few months before the tower closed forever. This negative became separated from the others that I took on that particular night when I had it out printing it for someone years ago. Anyway, the photo looks west towards the railroad control point "East Lapeer", the East end of the CTC siding at Lapeer on the GTW Flint Sub. You can make out the absolute signal in the distance well as the overhead signal just east of Court Street which protected eastward trains through the interlocking. It was a bitter, snowy night to be out shooting but I'd pay good money to be able to reshoot it in 2019.

The diamond and tower were located at Mile 290.0 (From Chicago) of the Flint Sub. and Mile D59.8 (From Detroit) of the PC Mackinaw branch. Telegraphic call sign for Lapeer Jct. was "G". Taken with a Yashica Mat 124G using Kodak Tri-X pan 120 film.