Southbound at Dewey
A northbound Milwaukee Road train comes over the C&EI diamond at Dewey Tower in the summer of 1969. The engineer reaches out for his train-orders that are in the fork. Dewey Tower was located on the north side of Terre Haute at MP 174.75. Call signs for the tower were "DE" and run by Milwaukee men. The 31-lever plant (13 levers for switches & derails, 6 levers for 8 locks and 2 crossing bars and 13 levers for 13 signals) was a Saxby & Farmer Machine installed in 1907. Maple Avenue spur came off and around the southeast quadrant of the diamond. I would say that the photo is looking north from Maple Avenue. Photo by John Fuller.
My guess is that this Milw southbound train #82, but I don't know for sure. It's a great shot. In those days, this was the clutter for railrans...cars, M-O-W trucks, telegraph poles and maybe even the train order signal. Nowadays, this has just enough shit packed into it to grab any railfan.
Leader appears to be MILW F7A #79-A which was built by EMD in December of 1949.
Southbound Milw #82
Dewey Tower
Terre Haute, Indiana
Crossing of Milw/C&EI
Circa Summer 1969
John Fuller Photograph
Southbound at Dewey
A northbound Milwaukee Road train comes over the C&EI diamond at Dewey Tower in the summer of 1969. The engineer reaches out for his train-orders that are in the fork. Dewey Tower was located on the north side of Terre Haute at MP 174.75. Call signs for the tower were "DE" and run by Milwaukee men. The 31-lever plant (13 levers for switches & derails, 6 levers for 8 locks and 2 crossing bars and 13 levers for 13 signals) was a Saxby & Farmer Machine installed in 1907. Maple Avenue spur came off and around the southeast quadrant of the diamond. I would say that the photo is looking north from Maple Avenue. Photo by John Fuller.
My guess is that this Milw southbound train #82, but I don't know for sure. It's a great shot. In those days, this was the clutter for railrans...cars, M-O-W trucks, telegraph poles and maybe even the train order signal. Nowadays, this has just enough shit packed into it to grab any railfan.
Leader appears to be MILW F7A #79-A which was built by EMD in December of 1949.
Southbound Milw #82
Dewey Tower
Terre Haute, Indiana
Crossing of Milw/C&EI
Circa Summer 1969
John Fuller Photograph