Summit Interlocking tower on the B&O-PRR
Columbus and Newark Division east of Columbus, January 1968. The
camera is looking west toward Columbus. Photo by Bob McCord from the
John Fuller Collection.
Summit located 14.1
miles from Columbus Union Station sat on the top of a long grade that
started at the Scioto River. It was here that trains could be
switch from one track to another and where, in the steam days, helper
locomotives would be cut off and sent back to Columbus. The tower
had a manual lever plant. Summit interlocking tower was located
between East Columbus tower on the west and Heath tower on the east.
It was a B&O tower staffed with a B&O operator.
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Summit looking west toward Columbus
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Summit looking East toward Newark |
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Summit looking west toward Columbus |
Summit looking north |
- Four Photos by Galen Gonser taken June 8, 1975
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