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Sunday, February 2, 2020

Trackside Photographer Profiles NY Central Towers

The Trackside Photographer is a great publication and I've have been tapped a few times to provide content there.  Recently I noticed that another contributor appears to be running a feature on New York Central railroad interlocking towers in the Metropolital Region where he got to spend time as a kid with his dad, who was a tower operator. At this point NW tower in North White Plains and OW tower in Ossining have been profiled and I suspect that a few additional towers are in the pipeline.


The posts are comprehensive, discussing operations, history, mechanics, you name it, all bound together with a great personal touch.  Central towers are woefully under-documented compared to PRR and Reading towers for reasons I have yet to figure out and at this point Trackside Photographer is the only publication trying to pick up the slack  In fact the site has a whole interlocking tower category, and while some of the listed posts can be a bit lite on tower content, they are nevertheless worth checking out.

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