PDA

View Full Version : Conrail Information?

BoxcabE50
January 26th, 2005, 05:05 AM
Anyone out there have a good set of employee timetables? I would like to know where on the system, a couple of places were located. graemlins/headscratch.gif

One was known as "HT Tower." The other is "Wandle Interlocking."

Map? Or?

:D

Boxcab E50
Don Rickle
February 1st, 2005, 01:50 AM
Boxcab here is a link to a Wandle Interlocker track diagram during Pennsy days. web page (http://broadway.pennsyrr.com/Rail/Prr/Maps/Itlk/wandle.gif) Wandle is in Canton Ohio.
BoxcabE50
February 1st, 2005, 07:36 AM
Don-

Thanks for locating Wandle!

Do you have any further data available on interlockings or towers during Conrail days? The mention of Wandle, I found in the body of a train order copied at a location named "Wood." Am wondering if this is another tower? Or where it was? Must have been somewhere in the same region!

:D

Boxcab E50

[ 01. February 2005, 01:41: Message edited by: BoxcabE50 ]
Don Rickle
February 1st, 2005, 08:14 AM
HT Tower. I was stumped on this one! After researching it, I believe HT tower is (was?) nothing more than a shack on the old Monongahela Railway. Here is a link to the page Monongahela page (http://www.wvrail.railfan.net/mga_past.html) and a photo HT Photo (http://www.wvrail.railfan.net/photos/sharks@hite_siding.jpg)
BoxcabE50
February 1st, 2005, 08:31 AM
Good grief! :eek: Claustrophobia! If that is the place, I have a January 2, 1977 dated Conrail train order, on PC form.

The more I look at this order, I wonder if it is a "T" as written. Just lousy penmanship? The order appears to read: "Hold all westward trains clear of number one track between HT Tower and State Line. JGE"

The way the word "of" is written, the "F" is just like what I thought was a "T." So, was there an HF Tower? That sounds familiar. There was an HF, and a State Line Tower near Hammond, Indiana.

Does any of this fit?

This is one reason I enjoy collecting train orders. The learning where the offices were located. And in the process I pick up a lot about how the railroad was laid out.

:D

Boxcab E50
Don Rickle
February 1st, 2005, 09:22 AM
That sounds better. HF was the tower at the Conrail-GTW crossing in South Bend, IN. I'm guessing that's HF to the Hammond tower"State Line". Sure isn't "State Line" on the Boston & Albany".