I never worked this Tower 1 in Boston, the entry and exit control point for South Station. It was the original. A train director, an operator, and two levermen made the whole thing work. Trains from the Shore Line, the Dorchester Branch (the "Second District," to New Haven Railroaders), and the Old Colony line arrived here, and had to pass over all the pneumatic double-slip switches governed by signal indications on the semaphore high boards. Jerry "Red" Warford told me years ago, when we both worked at South Bay tower (Ca. 1998), the nearest track was the lead to the unused loop track under South Station.

Photographed by Leo King, June 7, 1954.
Added to the photo archive by Leo King, June 5, 2004.
Railroad: NY, NH & H.

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