A Baltimore & Ohio class P-6 Pacific passes CM Tower at Du Bois, Pa., with Pittsburgh–Buffalo train 252 in September 1955. This is the old Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh, which became part of B&O in 1932.
Philip R. Hastings photo
Local train on the old BR&P
By Angela Cotey | April 8, 2022
Looks like the BR&P used the New Haven Railroad’s plans to build that interlocking tower.
A lot of BR&P towers looked like that, Ridgway, Ashford Junction. The Pittsburgh-Buffalo passenger train ran until October 1955 and was ALWAYS steam–the last non-NW long distance passenger train to ALWAYS be steam–and probably why PhilHastings was there to get the photo! BR&P used semaphores into the 1960’s I’ve read–then put in those B&O-type signals.