11-27-2010, 10:07 PM
Since you didn't give a location, a mystery was a foot.
Thank God for the ineternet....
I did some research, first with Bing maps(Don't worry..I didn't pin down your favorite fishing spot) and found the tower. Its called Slateford Junction Tower.
More Googling, and discovered that the sideing was put in the early 2000"s so the new Delaware-Lackawana could interchange with NS(Hence the NS pushing cars into the siding). In 2005 there was a movement to restore the tower, and by the looks of your pics, it didn't get very far. Maybe because of the interchange. More research revealed a website(<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.thebluecomet.com/eldlw5.html">http://www.thebluecomet.com/eldlw5.html</a><!-- m -->) of the route from an earlier time. With pictures of towers of the same design and construction along the route. Along with pictures of Slateford Tower.
I was trying to see if I could find a picture of Slateford Tower, when it was still in operation.
I guess more digging is involved.
Thank God for the ineternet....
I did some research, first with Bing maps(Don't worry..I didn't pin down your favorite fishing spot) and found the tower. Its called Slateford Junction Tower.
More Googling, and discovered that the sideing was put in the early 2000"s so the new Delaware-Lackawana could interchange with NS(Hence the NS pushing cars into the siding). In 2005 there was a movement to restore the tower, and by the looks of your pics, it didn't get very far. Maybe because of the interchange. More research revealed a website(<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.thebluecomet.com/eldlw5.html">http://www.thebluecomet.com/eldlw5.html</a><!-- m -->) of the route from an earlier time. With pictures of towers of the same design and construction along the route. Along with pictures of Slateford Tower.
I was trying to see if I could find a picture of Slateford Tower, when it was still in operation.
I guess more digging is involved.
Torrington, Ct.
NARA Member #87
I went to my Happy Place, but it was closed for renovations.
NARA Member #87
I went to my Happy Place, but it was closed for renovations.