MICHIGAN'S INTERLOCKINGS

NEW YORK CENTRAL

Detroit Line

Now owned by Norfolk Southern.

Basically a double track line with single direction ABS. With wide spacing between tracks, as east track is formerly Michigan Central, and west track is formerly Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.


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WEST DETROIT
Tower listed with main line

DELRAY
Tower listed with Pere Marquette

BRIDGE
Mechanical interlocking installed 1907

Bridge over Rouge River.

YD TOWER
Mechanical interlocking installed 1907
Closed 1967, remotely controlled from Bridge

Junction of Detroit Line with Junction Yards Branch.

FN TOWER (Trenton)
Mechanical interlocking installed 1902
Closed 2000's, remotely controlled from Bridge

North of FN Tower, paralleling New York Central on east side is Detroit Toledo & Ironton, and paralleling on west side is Detroit & Toledo Shore Line. At FN Tower, all railroads cross. And south of FN Tower, paralleling on east side is Detroit & Toledo Shore Line, and paralleling on west side is Detroit Toledo & Ironton, a reversal of positions. The two New York Central tracks have a wider than normal separation, as the east track is formerly Michigan Central, and the west track is formerly Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

SLOCUM JCT.
Mechanical interlocking installed 1902

Crossing of Grosse Isle Branch with Detroit & Toledo Shore Line.

MONROE
Interlocking installed 1940's

Former crossing with New York Central Monroe Branch, abandoned 1951.

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ECORSE JCT. (Victoria Ave.)
Electric interlocking installed 1907
Closed by 1990's, remotely controlled from Bridge

Crossing of Junction Yards Branch with Wabash and Detroit & Toledo Shore Line. Also junction of Wabash and Pennsylvania Railroad Toledo Division, which had trackage rights east into Detroit.

SCHAEFER TOWER
Mechanical interlocking installed 1923

Crossing of Junction Yards Branch with Detroit Toledo & Ironton Dearborn Subdivision.