ERIE at Kouts Layout

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ERIE at Kouts Layout

Post by Notch 8 » Sat Jan 04, 2020 8:38 am

The PRR Interlocking chart for Kouts interlocking. Note the information concerning Kouts' remote control of the Erie(EL) crossing of the Monon at Wilders.
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Re: ERIE at Wilders Layout

Post by hibbard » Sat Jan 04, 2020 5:04 pm

The diagram you posted is Kouts, in later years wilders was remoted from Kouts. My attachment is the layout when the CA&S was still there.
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Re: ERIE at Kouts Layout

Post by Notch 8 » Sat Jan 04, 2020 7:30 pm

Not sure how I mis-marked the Kouts photo as Wilders.. but I did. Miscellaneous Kouts pictures
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Looking RR West, 1962..jpg
The interior of Kouts Interlocking, Kouts, IN, SEP56 (Photo by the late CL Coates, Foreman, Erie Signal Gang #33)..jpg
The SW elevation of the tower, 1975..jpg
The SW elevation of the tower, 1920..jpg
Looking RR West on the PRR, 1973..jpg
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Re: ERIE at Kouts Layout

Post by rrnut282 » Mon Jan 06, 2020 1:05 pm

Image that. A diamond where the Erie mains had the narrowist spacing. :shock:
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