This is a response to a rather old post (2003) from Russell Strodtz, confirming
that he was correct concerning the relocation of West Eola.
I recently found information in the 1923 volume of the Railway Signal Engineer
indicating that the West Eola plant was moved 800 feet west in 1922, and 14
levers were added for a total of 53 mechanical levers, and detector locking was
installed.
A move of 800 feet would mean that the original tower was just to the east side
of the McClure crossing. The periodical does not give a reason for the move,
but the additional levers indicates to me that there was an expansion of the
plant or relocation of the yard leads to the west. The original tower location
would most likely have interfered with a yard expansion and relocation of the
west lead to its current location.
Glen Haug
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@...> wrote:
>
> Glen,
>
> I worked that tower in parts of '66 and '67. I was told by gentlemen
> that were in their 60's that the tower had been moved. One version
> was that it had been at East Eola but that may be an exaggeration.
>
> A track chart corrected to 01-29-30 shows the signal bridges and
> tower at the correct locations. Street is actually labeled as
> "Mc Clure Ave". It is in the right place with the crossover from the
> West Yard running right through the crossing. The rodding to the
> East switch went under the street.
>
> The "moving" theory still stands up. I do not think that the tower
> would have originally been built without any road access. I can
> imagine the tower being at the crossing and later operational needs,
> perhaps a yard reconstruction, making it necessary to move the
> crossovers which would have dictated moving the tower along with
> them.
>
> Does anyone know if the yard at Eola in 1930 was configured as
> originally built? It does have rather long leads on the West end
> that could have been much shorter.
>
> Russ
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