User:Mitchazenia/Suffern Tower

Suffern Tower, known by its telegraph call as SF Tower or SF, was an Erie Railroad interlocking switch tower located under the New York State Thruway in Suffern, New York. The switches involved with the tower included trains terminating and/or starting at Suffern station with access to Hillburn Yard. There was also a switch onto the Piermont Branch, a former part of the Erie main line to Piermont station. The tower also served freight trains going onto Ford Lead, a track that spurred off the main line in Suffern and went into New Jersey to meet the Ford Motor Company plant in Mahwah, New Jersey. The tower, built in 1898, suffered from a disrupted foundation due to the construction of the Thruway in 1955. Because of the foundation, wooden timbers were required to hold the tower up. Despite the preventive measures, the building still leaned towards Ford Lead. The structure was demolished in 1987, when the switches were placed on automatic by New Jersey Transit at Hoboken Terminal.