Years of planning and fundraising paid off in Union City, Indiana, on Tuesday when a moving company moved the town’s railroad interlocking tower about a block west to a park.
The brick tower, which closed in 1968, once controlled the crossing of the New York Central”s (Big Four) Cleveland-Indianapolis line with the Pennsylvania Railroad’s (Panhandle) Columbus-Logansport, Indiana, line.
Local interests raised more than $56,000 which was matched by a $50,000 grant from the Indiana Housing and Community Development Agency.
Union City, located on the Indiana-Ohio border, had faced a late March deadline to commit to moving the tower or else it would be razed by CSX.
The former Pennsy line through Union City is gone, but the former NYC line is today the Indianapolis Line of CSX.
Three city streets were closed so the tower could be move on dollies by Wolfe House & Building Movers.
The tower is slated to be restored with the lower level being used as a visitor center with restrooms, and the upper level returned to its appearance when the tower was still open.
It is located in the southwest corner of Artisan Crossing park and faces the CSX tracks in the same manner that it did before it was moved. The park is adjacent to the CSX Indianapolis Line and across the street from the restored former PRR passenger station.
In the top image, the tower is being wheeled west on Pearl Street. The bottom image shows the tower in its final resting place.
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