Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway

        Chillicothe Subdivision

Prototype Signaling and CTC

The following photos are some I've taken over the years of signals and CTC installations. Some of the signals survive. All the CTC installations are gone.

Here is the B&O's Dayton Dispatching office. The top panel, left, is from North Dayton Cabin and the panel on the right is from Erie Jct. in Lima. This installation was installed in 1951 to handle the Toledo Subdivision.

Above is Don Volk, 1st trick dispatcher at my favorite CTC installation, Deshler, Ohio, photographer unknown.

Doug Leffler took this photo of the Grand Trunk's Pontiac dispatching office.

EX - NYC Signaling Installations

Columbus, Ohio

Vickers, Ohio

Quincy, Ohio

EX - PRR Signaling Installations

Lima, Ohio

EX - B&O Signaling Installations (Mostly CPLs)

Leipsic, Ohio

Deshler, Ohio

Ex - C&EI @ Woodland Junction, Il. (CSX & UP Junction)

South end of AK Siding, Wapakoneta and Sidney Jct, Ohio

Anna and South End of Deshler, Ohio

Tontogany, Ohio

Troy, Ohio - Clear - Approach - Restricting

EX - L&N Signaling Installations

Matawan, TN. 

Norfolk Southern Signal Installations

Leipsic, Ohio and Jenkinsburg, GA

North end Mc Donough and South End Jenkisburg, GA

Railamerica Signaling Installations

Indiana & Ohio - Quincy, Ohio and Toledo Peoria & Western solar assisted distant semaphore- Illinois

EX-Santa Fe Signaling Installations

Edelstein, IL

Verona, IL

Toledo & Ohio Central  CTC Installation, 1927

The following photos and information are from the personal collections of Eric Kretz and Bruce Carpenter. Photos are from an original General Railway Signal photo album of the project. The article below was printed in 1927 by Railway Age. The machine was installed in May of 1927 and was housed at Fostoria, Ohio, it covered territory from Toledo, southward to Berwick. The tower is still standing in Fostoria, not sure what happened to machine. The entire line is now gone, as well.

The "Control Machine" - Fostoria, Ohio

                Working an electric switch in hand operation. Local switching at Wayne, Ohio

                            Meet at Wayne, Ohio. South End of Wayne, Ohio

                            Meet at Woodside, Ohio. Intermediates, south of Pemberville

                        Here's how it all worked in 1927!

Railway Age, copyrighted 1927