204 Snagging Orders at ND Tower - a photo on Flickriver

            Southbound Milwaukee Road train #204 is seen grabbing orders at Highland "ND" tower on February 23rd, 1981 with Milw #3 in the lead. Jack G. Tyson photo.

The red-haired girl holds the train order fork up high for the engineer to grab.  The train order signal can be seen on the corner of the tower by the ironman mast.

"ND" tower was at the crossing of the NYC's Egyptian line with the joint EL/C&O, which at this time may have been completely removed.  The diamond for the westbound EL would have been where the photographer is standing and the eastbound further back.  ND tower was located at MP IH 7.12.

Milw FP45 #3 was built by EMD in December of 1968, (c/n 34160) on EMD Order 7121, MILW class 36-EP-6, it was sold for scrap to Miller Compressing in July 1984. It was delivered in UP's Armor Yellow paint scheme for use in passenger service, and when Amtrak took over passenger service, it was demoted to freight service and painted in the freight paint scheme, seen here. This was one of five FP45's on the Milwaukee (#'s 1-5), and one of only 14 of this model ever built.

Taken in: United States / Indiana / Highland (show map)

Taken on: February 23, 1981

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