www.txrrhistory.com - Tower 207 - Houston (Maury St.)
Hardy St. Yard, Texas & New Orleans (T&NO) Railroad
Historic Photo - Tower 207
A high resolution scan of the above photo yields the closeup of Tower 207 at
top. The image was scanned
from a slide obtained by Carl Codney. The slide is captioned "Houston, Texas SP
fan trip, 8/31/57".
This date is problematic because Railroad Commission records list 1958 as the
year the "207" designation
was granted. Note the white building immediately behind the tower structure
appears to have survived and is
visible in the photos below.
Modern Photo - Tower 207
This photo was taken in June, 2001
facing due southwest from the southern tip of Chase St. near Tower
26. The Houston
skyline is visible in the distance and the
white building beneath the overpass is labeled Tower 207.
The wooden structure from the
top images is gone, but the building behind it
appears to have survived and is labeled "Tower 207" (below). The tower was
located at the east end of the T&NO Hardy St. Yard near downtown
Houston.
It was established as an electric interlocking at Maury
St. in 1958 to control
T&NO traffic at the crossing of the
original T&NO east-west main line and
the north-south ex-HE&WT line [Jim King photos]
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Tower 207 no longer serves an interlocking function, but
the building may still be used for storage purposes. There is
an open field between Tower 207 and Tower 26 and they are roughly
1500 ft. apart.
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Location Map - Tower 207
Satellite Image, Tower 207 and Vicinity
