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Promenade Street Interlocking Tower, Promenade Street between Union Station & East Side Tunnel Viaduct, Providence, Providence County, RI

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Promenade Street Interlocking Tower, Promenade Street between Union Station & East Side Tunnel Viaduct, Providence, Providence County, RI

description

Summary

Significance: The structure houses the interlocking n signal equipment which regulates all train movements on the east end of Union Station for the main rail to Boston and for the east side branch to Bristol.
Survey number: HAER RI-23
Building/structure dates: 1909 Initial Construction

date_range

Date

1969 - 1980

person

Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator

AMTRAK

Federal Railroad Administration

New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad

DeLeuw, Cather/Parsons, contractor

Barrett, William E, photographer

Artemel, Janice G, historian

place

Location

Riverside, 41.82399, -71.41283

Google Map of 41.8239891, -71.4128343

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Source

Library of Congress

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Link

http://www.loc.gov/

copyright

Copyright info

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