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OK. I see now you changed it to Ann Arbor symbols! Disregard above, I guess.

I worked Carleton Tower 1971-74 and can give you what I remember from that period. Keep in mind, that was awhile ago! I believe there were two Flat Rock-Cincy (via Springfield) round trips DC-1, DC-3, CD-2, CD-4. At least one or two Flat Rock-Springfield round trips DJ-1, JD-2 (J=Junction, their yar...

I worked at Kearsley Tower off and on from 1970-1972 (before going to Carleton and eventually to Saginaw.) Here's a photo of the tower taken summer of 1970.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zx84olg3cmevt ... 1.jpg?dl=0

PatAzo wrote: "Before they single tracked the mainline the OS for unmanned stations were a mircophone along the track in Parma and automatic OS in Albion and Marshall. The dispatcher could turn them on to follow a trains progress. When they passed Parma you would hear the train. At Albion and Marsha...

Kearney St in Port Huron off the former GTW branch to the paper place. Your hint to an open drawbridge did it for me! https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9861744,-82.4380943,3a,75y,180h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sW2IxgyvWFaYtEf0TktgbGA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3...

Nice job on the weathering! I have that GP30 in the C&O blue/yellow. As a dispatcher and a Chessie employee, I hated when CSX came in and renumbered everything so as not to conflict with their Seaboard stuff. Sorry, but the 4263 SHOULD BE a GP40!!!

Pleasant Ridge was also a shelter.

I will probably need to observe a day of mourning when Carleton tower is demolished! Bring out the sackcloth and ashes! While still in high school, I started visiting the tower in 1966, and worked 3rd shift there for C&O from 1970-1974 before going to Saginaw. I'm surprised it has lasted this long! ...

This is a paper schematic of how Holly appeared on our CTC panel in Saginaw. Obviously different than "real life." The signals labeled as "2" and "3" were controlled "hold out" signals at North Holly and South Holly. The other photo is from a C&O northbound waiting at the diamond for a southbound GT...

Presume an OWLS diamond is more suitable at a crossing with the "right angle!" Regarding the closing of the tower, further timetable investigation shows the tower still open in my October 1960 timetable, but no longer open in my October 1961 timetable. Guess that pretty much narrows it down! It's po...

I have many of the same questions you pose regarding the interlocking tower at Holly. Unfortunately, I've never been able to find any information regarding its operation, nor any photos from the time it was still "manned." I did confirm that the operators were GTW employees. I presume the operator j...

If interested, I editied my comments about W. Pontiac (above) by adding a photo of how I remember it. I didn't want to add the photo here since we have already moved on to a different 'Where Is it." You can see the small shanty which was painted in the old GTW maroon and cream paint. This is back wh...

This is Holly the way I remember it. This is looking south down the GTW. The track on the far right is the "south side" where C&O delivered cars to the GTW. Up ahead you can see the interlocked switch to the connecting track to the C&O. The HW&M and Vinegar tracks are out of the photo behind the cab...

I used to hang out there at West Pontiac back in the 60's. Didn't recognize it -- seems to be a lot more vegetation there now. There used to be a small shanty there right near the switch, the boarded-up relic of a long ago train order office. Mostly I hung out up at Hatchery Road where the Drayton P...

Thanks for the tip about the Google guy! After the last clue was given, I thought of the Katy trail right away and then pulled up some maps and information and found that bridge over another trail. I did find a couple of photos on a trail website, but not from the same angle. Figured, how many locat...

Junction where the Katy trail goes over the Rock Island trail near Windsor, Missouri?? Not finding any street view of that location, though.

Nice write-up on trains CRCN/FLFL. I remember those trains, but by 1985 I was holding a job that dispatched the Ludington Sub and all the train order branches, so I wasn't working the south end job. I seem to recall that at Wayne a back-up move was required to/from Conrail because they had to use th...

One of the early predecessor lines before PM was the Holly, Wayne and Monroe. In fact, there was a siding south of the diamond used for interchange that we always referred to as the HW&M track. I dispatched for C&O/Chessie in Saginaw from 1976-1988 including the line through Holly. During our busies...

In the 60's service in Ionia was provided by a Grand Ledge turn. The engine & caboose would tie up by the old freight house in Ionia at night. By 1972 Ionia was served by a local running out of Ensel yard. I recall in the early 60's (in my teen years) seeing a BL-2 with a handful of cars and caboos...

Before we were married my wife moved to Ionia in 2009 and I found the railroad history fascinating. So I began collecting information and pictures. I don't know where I got this picture. It is dated March 1975. It could have been Charlie G. or a guy know as Trail Nut who was a source of great infor...