| Posted by mmi16 on August 3, 2013 | |
As one who worked at the B&O's Haselton Tower back in 1967 & 1968 this is a depressing scene. At that time the vista in the direction pictured had a steel mill to the left and a veritable sea of track populating the acreage in front of the mill. Haselton Tower backed up against the steel mill. Movements across Center Street were made on the colored hand signals from the Train Director at Center Street. Erie-Lackawanna 'hot bottle' crews originated from the mill, crossed over all the railroads (B&O, PRR, PLE) on a series of hand throw crossovers to reach the EL Main to Warren, OH to deliver their molten steel cargo to another plant in Warren. Directly ahead of the locomotives(where the stone piles?? are) was the East end of B&O's Haselton yard. The CSX engines are operating on the former B&O tracks. The cross tracks are now NS, but back in the day, they were PRR.
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| Posted by CSXNick on March 23, 2014 | |
I saw this view from center street bridge a few weeks ago when visiting family in my hometown. It's sad I never got to see the valley in it's "heyday" all I can do is look for old pictures and ask family members how it used to be. Being born in 1982, Y town was already in a steady decline by then.
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