Even with a big city in the background, this looks like a lonely spot. Before CTC, was there was a tower here with actual humans manning this location?
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| Posted by JMC on June 6, 2013 | |
I believe there was a tower close by, but it may have been for the yard that served the mill here. Someone with a bit more knowledge of the operations here before the 80s might be able to correct me. One of my favorite photos on here (55711 by R.A. Durfee) shows what this area used to look like in the late 70s. I wish I could have seen it then!
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| Posted by mmi16 on June 13, 2013 | |
B&O's Haselton Tower was located about 500 yards West of the Center Street crossing. Center Street was non-interlocked and controlled by a Trainman that flagged trains across the crossing using different colored flags or lights for the different railroads that crossed at grade.
Haselton Tower was where the EL Hot Bottle trains originated from the mill that was located to the South of the Tower, with the Tower being on the South side of the tracks. Erie was the original road at the location and had the right to open up the various sets of crossovers that crossed over all the railroads the operated through Center Street and past Haselton to get to the Erie Main which was the North most track of all the tracks. All carriers had Statutory Stops clear of the Erie crossovers. The Erie crews did not have to get permission from any of the railroads that they crossed to make their moves with the hot bottle trains to Warren, OH, or to bring the empty bottle cars back to the Mill.
I worked as a extra Operator at Haselton Tower in the late 1960's.
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