Bannon - XY
Interlocking
Network Diagram - N&W -
T&OC
N&W class A No. 1237 is northbound heading for the Joyce Avenue yard in Columbus.
Bannon tower is in the background with
Watkins Yard just to the south of the tower.
To the right of the tower in the distance is the interchange with the T&OC.
Photo by Donald A. Kaiser, April 10, 1955
Bannon Tower, on the south side of Columbus, sat at the north end of Watkins Yard
and just south of a crossing with the T&OC’s line to Thurston and Charleston, WV.
There was an interchange between Watkins Yard and the T&OC mainly for N&W coal headed for the
T&OC’s Presque Isle Dock on Lake Erie near Toledo.
Just north of the T&OC crossing was the N&W’s Infirmary Yard.
It was named for an old Infirmary/TB facility off of Refugee Road.
Infirmary Yard was the oldest yard in this area used to serve the many
industries located along the N&W south of the Joyce Ave Yard.
It was expanded in the 1990's and is still in use.
Bannon was an N&W tower staffed with N&W operators.
The tower building you see in these photos was the second Bannon tower replacing a wooden structure.
The camera is looking west across the N&W tracks showing the snazzy bay window.
Photo by Galen Gonser taken April 1976.
An abandoned Bannon Tower looking north.
The yard in the distance is the infirmary Yard.
Photo by Galen Gonser taken September 1987.
The west and north sides of Bannon tower.
Photo by Galen Gonser taken September 1987.
Bannon Tower, on the south side of Columbus, sat at the north end of Watkins Yard and just south of a crossing with the T&OC’s line to Thurston and Charleston, WV. There was an interchange between Watkins Yard and the T&OC mainly for N&W coal headed for the T&OC’s Presque Isle Dock on Lake Erie near Toledo.
Just north of the T&OC crossing was the N&W’s Infirmary Yard. It was named for an old Infirmary/TB facility off of Refugee Road. Infirmary Yard was the oldest yard in this area used to serve the many industries located along the N&W south of the Joyce Ave Yard. It was expanded in the 1990's and is still in use.
Bannon was an N&W tower staffed with N&W operators. The tower building you see in these photos was the second Bannon tower replacing a wooden structure.
