I'd like to find information about the LS&MS in Toledo. Specifically about what interlocking towers they had in that city. Trying to unravel a small mystery about the name of one site, and where it was located. Wishful thinking- An old employee timetable would be a gold mine of data............. Any NYC RR fans have some connections?
I found these that may fit, but there could be more. Alexis - Toledo NYC/C&O/AA Broadway - Toledo NYC/NKP Fawcett Street - Toledo NYC K - North Toledo NYC (MC)/TT Maumee River Bridge - Toledo NYC Nasby (AV) - Toledo NYC/TT Oakdale - NYC Stanley (SA) - Toledo NYC Swan Creek - Toledo NYC Vickers - NYC/TT Vulcan - LS&MS/TT Wabash (Crossing) - NYC/WAB Z - Toledo NYC
I have a detailed map of the Toledo Terminal Railroad in 1923 with all the connecting lines and towers and roundhouses on it, I would have to have it scanned as it is a large map. I will see if I can scan it at work and create a PDF since we have a large printer for doing plans. You realize that the Miami and Erie canal went over the LS&MS and is now the Anthony Wayne Trail road in Toledo and still goes over the old LS&MS. Rick Jesionowski
Got any street names or cross-railroads to help? As a side note, the Miami & Erie Canal bed is the back border of my property.
https://train-orders.com/TOUR/L/LSMS/05.jpg https://train-orders.com/TOUR/L/LSMS/06.jpg Trying to unravel these two train orders. The first looks like it was copied at "WC". The second looks like "WO". I am fairly certain this is "Wagon Works Junction". Is the "WC" a sloppy "WO"? Or is the "WO" a sloppy "WC"? "WO" seems like a logical telegraph call. But....?????
If you follow the NYC line down from Detroit, the Wagon Works is where the Michigan Central diverged from the LS&MS, there was no tower as they were the same railroad, see the attached website how Wagon Works got its name and the location on the map above. https://www.michiganrailroads.com/stories/6865-wagon-works-junction Rick Jesionowski
This does help, Rick. Thank you. There had to have been some sort of structure housing a telegraph operator, who copied those papers I linked in my earlier post. Usually at such a location, it was a tower of some unknown construction. At the date they were issued, (1800s) LS&MS and the MC were separate companies. LS&MS into NYC in 1914. Many years later, MC into NYC.
At https://nycshs.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/nyc-telegraph-calls.pdf I found a listing of NYC telegraph calls. The Toledo Division is on Pages 11 and 12. Perhaps this might be of help to you.
Some interesting information contained here! Thanks! Now, if only that LS&MS document mentioned would surface. That would be very interesting!
