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Note letters “CW”\u00a0<\/span> ————<\/p>\n Note\u00a0the\u00a0letters DB\u00a0<\/span> —————-<\/p>\n ———————-<\/p>\n ————————–<\/p>\n ENGINE NO. 450 ——————–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Note letters “CW”\u00a0Old time railroad men will recall the C.W. Tower that\u00a0\u00a0stood for years at the north end of 22 tunnel near Lancing.\u00a0Operators worked three shifts a day, seven days a week,\u00a0\u00a0letting trains through the single tracked tunnels.\u00a0 Man\u00a0\u00a0seated in window is the late Fred Briggs. Others are\u00a0\u00a0unidentified. Installation of central train control early in… Continue reading Towers, Tunnels, Tipples and Trains<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,83,866],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-misc-records","category-towns-places","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3804,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions\/3804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Old time railroad men will recall the C.W. Tower that\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0stood for years at the north end of 22 tunnel near Lancing.\u00a0<\/span>Operators worked three shifts a day, seven days a week,\u00a0\u00a0letting trains through the single tracked tunnels.\u00a0 Man\u00a0\u00a0seated in window is the late Fred Briggs. Others are\u00a0\u00a0unidentified. Installation of central train control early in the\u00a0\u00a01950’s did away with the C.W. and other tower installatins\u00a0\u00a0on the CNOT&P.” \u00a0\u00a0Photo was taken by Sam Briggs.\u00a0[From the Morgan County News, Oct. 20, 1966]<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/photoalbum\/tower2.jpg\")
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Where was this tower located?<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/photoalbum\/TIPPLE1.jpg\")
Was this located in Oakdale???<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/photoalbum\/TUNNELL.jpg\")
This tunnel has the number “26” located just under where the ladies are standing. May be located in Oakdale.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morganco\/photoalbum\/train.jpg\")
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\nThe shiny green locomotive, No. 4501, pulling three private cars, a baggage car, a coach and a tank car full of water was enroute to Louisville, Ky. It stopped at Oakdale Aug. 18, 1966 with Earl Lehman of Oakdale as engineer and Joe Goldston as Conductor. From Louisville the train went thru Richmond, Va. via Knoxville to the National Railroad Historical Society Convention. The train is the property of the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga, Tn. Southern RR bought it from the K. & T RR Co. at Stearns KY. Southern discontinued the use of steam locomotives soon after WW II.
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\nFrom the Morgan County News, Aug. 25, 1966<\/p>\n