My Last Train past Delray Tower
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 พ.ย. 2020
- On a cloudy and crappy Sunday we are in Detroit Michigan at Delray Tower. Today the tower will be operating as a manned tower for its last full day. On Monday the 16th CSX and Conrail crews completed a 17 hour cutover of the signaling system. Control was transferred to the CSX RN dispatcher in Jacksonville Florida. Tower operators will be on the property until Friday November 20th, and if all goes as planned that is when the tower will go empty for the final time.
My last train at the tower was NS BD04 heading for Zug Island to interchange with the Delray connecting. They have a short train of gondolas loaded with steel Coil cars as they pass the tower. With an EMD GP60 for power this was a fitting train for me to end my time with Delray with.
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A sad end, indeed. My dad grew up in Delray, and loved to watch trains like I do. His old house was just a block or two away from here, demolished to construct the I-75 overpass. You will be missed, old Delray Tower.
I concur with the sentiment that this is sad and bittersweet... But I also commend rail fans who take the time to record trains and associated railroad activity so that it can live on, albeit in a different way, but still no less important. All too often opportunities like this are overlooked in the moment and lost forever. Thank you for sharing, not only area rail fans but rail fan transplants throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and beyond.
Greetings, Michigan Central Lines! It's a shame that this tower will be vacant and eventually demolished. I believe it should be preserved and brought over to one of Michigan's railway museums. To name a few places, this little tower would make a great side-display at Durand, Grass Lake, Owosso, or Mount Clemens. However, restoring such a building would take a lot of time, money, and very hard work. It looks very old and worn, and much restoration and care would need to be given to it. Still, it's nice to see a least one video of this tower before anything should happen to it. The capture of the short train suited this video's purpose, and was a nice "farewell" to a little piece of railroading history. Have a great day, Michigan Central Lines, and take care! Regards, Joseph trainonthetrack. 11/17/2020
Thank you for capturing this. Very sad to see this go
"...then again Jean-Luc....all good things"
Nice!
A very sad ending! In fact, almost every CSX runs will be controlled by the Jacksonville facility.
Bittersweet.....
Kinda sad.