Carnival March 1998 Trouble at "A" Tower: Cheyenne Soo Line's Brooten Line SP's West Valley Line Storm...Photo Section Moving Out of Hardman Tower CN Intermodal Train Schedules Personal Vision: Victor

and similar trips to Southern's Boylan tower, an "armstrong" lever office in Raleigh, ce- mented an early

the March 15, 1999 deac- tivation of "D" tower's interlocking plant, op- erator Pat Dunigan awaits the...after track inspectors reported to the tower that trees had fallen across the tracks. Track workers...the operator to the east at Rowlesburg Tower, the Grafton yardmaster, track inspectors, track workers

much concern to Pat or much activity at "D" tower. Pat was the senior operator assigned to the tower, having hired out as an operator on the Balti- more & Ohio 42...And since the tower itself had been built around 1910, when more than 100 trains...safely through the yard tracks east of the tower, since it was to lay over in Grafton for a crew change. Q317

signals. The 'nineties have come to "D" tower. Tower opera- tors remained on duty to aid communication with...a new utilitarian building across from "D" tower on the site of the steam-era locomotive...machine shop. "D" tower was the last active signal tower on the former B&O Monongah Division and perhaps the

tric interlockings into the plant at "D" tower. "GN" tower in East Grafton was modernized with an elec- tric interlocking...top of the GRS desktop model board in "D" tower. Although passenger and merchandise traffic through...after 1955 the physical plant at "D" tower remained unchanged. In 1963 the Chesapeake & Ohio gained

guide "coal cars" through the plant at "D" tower back to the mines on the Cowen Subdivi- sion in October 1998...Brown- ing relaxes between moves in "D" tower. The GRS "NX" model board has been pre- sent in "D" since 1950. The

tower, was built to control the new interlocking for Grafton's junction. A large new office building/passenger station, the...massive 600-ton concrete locomotive coaling tower, and a new brick locomotive round- house were also constructed...be planned and levers set, operators at "D" tower earned their pay. "D" tower's interlocking control was modernized in 1950 with a General

as far as Hicksville. At that point, Nassau Tower will stand in the way of progress. Very likely the control...the interlocking will be shifted to Queens Tower several miles to the west, and Nassau will be razed (or possibly...century, and of the seventy-seven year old tower that stands its silent vigil down by the junction. + OCTOBER

eases train 2770, to Patchogue, past the tower on April 24, 1998. 44 cTC BOARD RAILROADS ILLUSTRATED

af- ternoon offers this view of Nassau Tower, as a world-weary F7 enters the

of the New York & Atlantic. The Tower A few hundred feet east of the depot is Nassau Tower, built after the previous structure was totaled by an errant...Bellerose interlocking in Queens and Divide Tower in Hicksville, plus the single remotely-controlled...Oyster Bay Branch, at Locust Valley. The tower is a one-man, three trick operation. Of

blasts on the whistle. Standing by the old tower at Main Street, this would be my moment of truth -- what would

above: Standing the test of time, CSX's "Q" tower in Hyndman, Pennsylvania, and its Armstrong plant stands...below: CSX train #397 has just passed "SA" tower at the summit of Sand Patch and has begun its long decent

for with several overpasses and the coaling tower at Clyman Junction. At one time, Clyman Junction was the...remained into the 1990s was the coaling tower, one main track, and a stub-end branch...Extra 6846 East heads under the coaling tower with trainload of potash bound for Chicago

R" or Miller at Cherry Run, WV; "HO" tower at Hancock, WV; "WB" tower at Brunswick, MD; Martinsburg tower, WV; West Cumbo tower, WV; West Keyser tower; and M&K Junction at Rowlesville, WV (open part time). "R

Above: "D" tower in Grafton, West Virginia, has been standing since 1910...working the Second Trick shortly before the tower was rendered obsolete. Tom Hoover Second Class Mail United

Long Island Rail Road. Joe Greenstein "D" Tower The 'nineties come toa CSX landmark in Grafton, West Virginia...Tom Hoover "D" Tower The last third trick. Jay Potter Houston's Hometown Railroad

Carnival March 1998 Trouble at "A" Tower: Cheyenne Soo Line's Brooten Line SP's West Valley Line Storm...Photo Section Moving Out of Hardman Tower CN Intermodal Train Schedules Personal Vision: Victor

braking, backed from Sacramento to Elvas Tower, where it then headed south to Stockton on SP iron. After