Thursday, August 22, 2024

Tiflis/Bassett Junction

Guest post by William Russ.

There are 2 competing railroads in this April 21, 1959 aerial. The difficult local geography caused them to build fairly close to each other here. Zoom in on this high-resolution image and you will see both Junction A and B feature a wye. South of here each railroad serves the same town. North of here they go their own separate ways and don't compete with each other, not within the same towns anyway. The railroads cross each other at two places within this aerial. Neither crossing is at grade so there is no mention of them in the respective TTs. 


Railroad A: Connell Northern/Northern Pacific, Burlington Northern
Railroad B: Milwaukee Road
Junction A: Basset Junction N of Ritell on the NP Connell Northern Branch
Junction B: Tiflis Wye on the Milwaukee Road