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.
A blog devoted to explaining the ins and outs of North American railroad signaling, past, present and future. This blog seeks to preserve through photo documentation the great diversity and technical ingenuity of 20th century signaling and interlocking hardware and technology. Related topics cover interlocking towers and railroad communications infrastructure.
Note, due to a web hosting failure some of the photos and links may be unavailable.
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Sunday, February 2, 2020
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