CR Conrail Information?

BoxcabE50 Jan 26, 2005

  1. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    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. [​IMG]

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

    Map? Or?

    :D

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  2. Don Rickle

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    Boxcab here is a link to a Wandle Interlocker track diagram during Pennsy days. web page Wandle is in Canton Ohio.
     
  3. BoxcabE50

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    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

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  4. Don Rickle

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    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 and a photo HT Photo
     
  5. BoxcabE50

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    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.

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  6. Don Rickle

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    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".
     

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