BRILL Tower (Closed) (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
USA /
Pennsylvania /
Yeadon /
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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/ USA
/ Pennsylvania
/ Yeadon
World / United States / Pennsylvania
railway, abandoned / shut down, interlocking tower
Abandoned interlocking tower on Amtrak's NEC. Formerly the controlled BRILL interlocking which was replaced by the nearby PHIL interlocking. Named for the former trolley car company located nearby, BRILL was a bottleneck as it marked in a change in the traffic flow between two parallel two track lines to a single 4 track line.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 39°55'40"N 75°13'35"W
- Fairmount Park Trolley (Abandoned) 8.6 km
- Reading Co. Port Richmond (Defunct) 11 km
- North Penn Railroad ROW/Reading North Penn Line to old Berks St. Depot (abandoned) 15 km
- Reading Frankford Branch (Abandoned) 16 km
- PRR Bustleton Branch (Abandoned) 19 km
- PRR Cresheim Valley/Fort Washington Branch (Abandoned) 22 km
- PRR Main Line (Northeast Corridor) - Original Alignment 36 km
- PRR Trenton Cutoff (Original Grade) (Abandoned) 37 km
- Norfolk Southern Morrisville Yard 43 km
- Reading Trenton Branch (Mostly Abandoned) 51 km
- Mount Moriah Cemetery 1.1 km
- Cobbs Creek Park 1.9 km
- Pacific Atlantic Terminals 2.6 km
- New Public Housing 2.6 km
- University of Pennsylvania 3.5 km
- University City 3.6 km
- Southwest Center City/Graduate Hospital Area 4.4 km
- South Philadelphia 5 km
- West Philadelphia 5.4 km
- Delaware County, Pennsylvania 15 km