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Altoona Area Interlocking Towers


List of Altoona Area Towers w/ Information


Bell (formerly known as DI); MP 230.0; Built 1903; Closed when?

Date: 7/1957

Date: 7/1957

Date: 1962

ANTIS (formerly known as EF); MP 232.1; Built 1903; Remoted to Alto 1981

Date: 1920s

Date: 1968

Date: unknown

Date: 1985

HOMER (formerly known as WJ); MP 233; Built 1903; Closed when?

Date: unknown

Date: unknown

FURNACE (formerly known as WH); MP ~233.6; Built 1905; Closed when?

Date: unknown

WN; MP ~233.9; Built ?; Closed by 1942?

Date: 1913

Date: 1913

Date: 1913

SCALES (formerly known as JS); MP ~234.8; Built 1900, rebuilt 1927; Closed when?

Date: April 1927

Date: November 2008

WORKS (formerly known as RO); MP 235.5; Rebuilt 1916; Remoted to Alto 1973

Date: 1968

SOUTH (formerly known as SS); ~MP 235.5; Rebuilt 1905; Closed 1971

Date: 1950

Date: 1960s

Date: 1968

9th Street; Moved into RO 1935

Date: unknown

Date: unknown

10th Street (formerly known as FG); ~MP 235.8; Rebuilt 1915; Remoted to Alto 1935; Out of Service 1972

Date: 1903

ALTO (formerly known as JK); MP 236.3; Built 1915; Remoted to Pittsburgh 2012

Date: Late 1800s

Date: 10/21/1973

Date: 5/1985

By L. R. Myers 6/16/2012

MG; MP 243.5; Built 1944; Remoted to Pittsburgh 1994

Date: 7/1/1967

Date: 1985

By L.R. Myers 8/20/2012

ELDO (formerly known as EL); 3.0 miles from ALTO

Date: unknown

WYE (formerly known as SN); 6.3 miles from ALTO

Date: unknown

Date: 8/1967

Date: 1974

By Rich Reed 7/1982


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