ZOO Interlocking & Tower
USA /
Pennsylvania /
Tioga /
World
/ USA
/ Pennsylvania
/ Tioga
World / United States / Pennsylvania
railway, Amtrak, interlocking, interlocking tower
Major interlocking complex and active interlocking tower along the Amtrak Northeast Corridor.
Wye junction between the Northeast Corridor and Keystone Corridor Main Lines. Controls the approaches for the upper (to the west end) and lower levels (to the north end) of the 30th Street Station complex. Connection to west end of the SEPTA Powelton yard. There also once existed the capability to switch trains to/from the West Philadelphia Freight Elevated (elevated freight bypass through the 30th Street Station complex), but this has since been removed.
Wye junction between the Northeast Corridor and Keystone Corridor Main Lines. Controls the approaches for the upper (to the west end) and lower levels (to the north end) of the 30th Street Station complex. Connection to west end of the SEPTA Powelton yard. There also once existed the capability to switch trains to/from the West Philadelphia Freight Elevated (elevated freight bypass through the 30th Street Station complex), but this has since been removed.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 39°58'19"N 75°12'3"W
- Fairmount Park Trolley (Abandoned) 4.3 km
- Reading Co. Port Richmond (Defunct) 6.7 km
- North Penn Railroad ROW/Reading North Penn Line to old Berks St. Depot (abandoned) 9 km
- Reading Frankford Branch (Abandoned) 11 km
- PRR Bustleton Branch (Abandoned) 14 km
- PRR Cresheim Valley/Fort Washington Branch (Abandoned) 17 km
- PRR Main Line (Northeast Corridor) - Original Alignment 31 km
- PRR Trenton Cutoff (Original Grade) (Abandoned) 31 km
- Norfolk Southern Morrisville Yard 39 km
- Reading Trenton Branch (Mostly Abandoned) 46 km
- Philadelphia Zoo 0.5 km
- Mantua 0.8 km
- Parkside 1.2 km
- Fairmount Park 1.3 km
- West Powelton/Saunders Park 1.4 km
- Powelton Village 1.6 km
- Drexel University 2 km
- University City 2.1 km
- West Philadelphia 2.6 km
- North Philadelphia 4 km