Fading Glory at CO Tower - a photo on Flickriver

Fading Glory at CO Tower

            Although I made no effort to visit CO Tower on this day, I would do that a few years later. 

I was working as a reporter for a newspaper in nearby Mattoon and somewhat on a whim called up the operator one day and said that I wanted to do a story about the tower. 

So I came over and in fact visited the tower about three times. It was in late summer of 1980 or 1981. By then, Conrail traffic was slim to none. The overhead trains had ceased using the former New York Central route to St. Louis in summer 1980. 

The operators were Norfolk & Western employees. The tower was staffed on first and third shifts. The N&W had moved its overhead trains to the former Wabash route to St. Louis so there was little traffic on either railroad other than locals. 

One of my biggest regrets is that I failed to save a copy of the story that I wrote about CO Tower and I didn't save the photographs that I made. One of these days I'm going to have to get back to a library in Illinois and find that story. (Scanned from a Kodachrome slide).

Taken in: United States / Illinois / Charleston (show map)

Taken on: April 1, 1977

Tags:

railroad tracks

railroad structures

Charleston, Illinois

Conrail

New York Central

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