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EJ&E / SOO Leithton Tower

            Here is a photo of the tower that guarded the EJ&E and Soo Line crossing at Leithton, Illinois, circa  1950.  The EJ&E manned and controlled this tower.  This photo of Leithton tower and the Soo Line depot is a nice one.  I don't know who took it but the date is circa 1950.  View is looking S/W with the Soo Line tracks in the foreground.  

Tower was closed in the mid-1960's when the Soo Line installed CTC between Schiller Park and Waukesha.  

Leithton may have remained as a train order office for the EJ&E for some years after it ceased to control the interlocking, and it remained as MOW headquarters beyond that. The structure survived until major reconfiguration of the [then] Wisconsin Central concurrent with Metra expanding its North Central suburban service.

Taken in: United States / Illinois / Libertyville Township / Leithton (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 1950

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