LM/Scioto Tower looking southeast. The C&O double track is going
away from the camera on the right. The NYC double track is crossing
the C&O and PRR and curving to the south on the left side of the
tower. The PRR double track, which looks like a single track in this photo,
is crossing both the C&O and NYC. It is the closest two tracks to
the tower. In an economy move the NYC was single tracked through the
crossing in the early 1970's.
Photo by Bob McCord, John Fuller Collection.
LM/Scioto Tower looking east across the Scioto River toward downtown
Columbus. The C&O track is closest to the camera, the NYC on the
other side of the tower and the PRR track on the left. The stairs to
nowhere are for the tower operator to pass train orders to the C&O train
crew. It was only used when Parsons Avenue couldn't provide the train
orders.
Photo by John Fuller, 1971
The Broad Street side of LM
Tower. This photo was taken in 2002 two days before it was closed
for good.
Photo by Edward Miller
A caboose hop southbound on the NYC taken from LM Tower, June 1970, by
tower operator Edward Miller. For some unknown reason the switcher has a
Southern Pacific caboose in tow.
In the top right of the photo
can be seen the pagoda like roof of the tower at the T&OC's Central
Station on Broad Street.
C&O train #47, the northbound Sportsman taken from LM Tower in April 1968,
by operator Edward Miller. #47 will use the Yard A approach to
Columbus Union Station.
