Milwaukee Road's Newport Tower stood along the heavily trafficked Milwaukee Road & Burlington Northern joint mainlines just east (south) of Pig's Eye and Dayton Bluff yards in St. Paul. The Rock I... (more)

The Tower protected the crossing of the Nickel Plate Clover Leaf and The Illinois Central Gruber Line.

The ghosts of MJ Tower guard the Soo Line/BN crossing in Superior, WI. in May of 1986.

CNW's St. Francis Tower was a busy place at one time. It controlled the junction between the passenger mainline to downtown Milwaukee and the freight bypass to Butler. It also controlled the junct... (more)

Burnham Interlocking is where the Nickel Plate and South Shore crossed the Pennsy's South Chicago & Southern (SC&S). Built in the 1920s, the former PRR tower caught fire in early 1978 and was dem... (more)

CNW's CK Tower in Winona, MN in July of 1987. This tower guarded the CNW/MILW (SOO) crossing and was taken out of service in 1989. It was torn down soon thereafter.

The tower that time forgot. This tower guarded the crossing of the CNW mainline to the Twin Ports and Soo Line's Blueberry branch line just south of Rice Lake, WI. The WC took over the Soo Line in... (more)

PARK Tower

This tower is a one of a kind single story brick building, containing a 39-lever Union Switch & Signal Model P interlocking machine. In its heyday, PARK interlocking was a 4-track fu... (more)

Reading & Northern's new "Outer Station" Tower

As part of a two million dollar project to create a new station for the majority of the railroad's excursions out of Reading, south of the railroad... (more)

Clyman Junction was at the crossing of CNW's Chicago-Twin Cities mainline and the Fond Du Lac-Janesville mainline. We are looking north up the line to Fond Du Lac, which is now a trail. The tower ... (more)

CNW's Wiscona, WI tower in December of 1965. The line west went to Butler and the Adams line, north and east went to Green Bay via the Airline and the Shoreline, while south went to Milwaukee and ... (more)

Soo Line's Jenswold Street Interlocking tower stands guard over a SOO/NP crossing in Duluth under the DMIR ore dock. The tower has been abandoned for a while when this picture was taken in Septemb... (more)

Companion photo to 600657 at CK Tower in Winona, MN. A SOO and a MILW caboose cross the CNW in July of 1987.

CNW's CK Tower in Winona, MN in July of 1987. This tower guarded the CNW/MILW crossing and was taken out of service in 1989. It was torn down soon thereafter.

Lake Tower was on Milwaukee's south side and governed a small yard, crossovers, and passing siding on the Milwaukee Road. The tower was closed in the mid 1980's and was burned by vandals in 1989 a... (more)