Other Tower Types

There are other types of towers which may not be an interlocking tower but deserve to be documented as part of this effort. Such examples may include yard towers, watchman towers, interlocking towers in adjacent states or other types of architecture which incorporate design elements typical to interlocking towers.  As with the rest of the website, we need your photos and information to develop this page.

Interlocking Towers NOT in Texas

Location	Crossing Name	Railroad Crossings
Oklahoma	Staley / RedTex	MKT - SLSF
Louisiana	Hollywood Yard - Shreveport	T&P

Yard Towers

There are a number of examples of this type of tower structure known to exist in Texas. As yet we do not have any good photographic examples.  Locations known to have a yard tower include:
Missouri Pacific (now UP) Centennial Yard, Fort Worth, TX - Crest (or hump) Tower
Southern Pacific Miller Yard - Dallas, Texas
ATSF Saganaw Yard, Saganaw, Texas (north of Ft. Worth)
ATSF Downtown Ft. Worth, Texas Yard. (Tower is part of the ATSF Passenger Depot)
Various Houston, Texas classification yard towers.
Missouri Pacific Yard, Longview, Texas

If you have photos or information on any of the above or other yard type towers, please contact us.

Watchman Towers - Used to protect automovive street crossing with a railroad.

Tower Architecture - This page includes photos of structures similar to interlocking towers.

Non-Interlocked Crossings - This page documents locations where 2 or more railroads cross that do not have interlocked crossings.  This includes gated crossings or grade seperated crossings.

Unknown Towers - Photographs of towers at locations that are unknown. Please help us identify the correct locations.

Last Revised: 09/15/2005 - Contact the Texas Interlocking Towers Page.