Manhattan Jct. controlled the junction of the Toledo Terminal, Detroit & Toledo ShoreLine, Pere Marquette, the Wheeling &Lake Erie and the Pennsylvania Railroad, just north of the Maumee River.  The W&LE ran into their downtown Toledo Depot just north of this tower, and the Ann Arbor Railroad ran south along the river in conjunction with the PRR.  The tower was an "armstrong" interlocking.  By the time this photo was taken in May, 1982, the tower was not manned full time.  Often a clerk-operator would race up to the tower to line it up, and then leave after the task was accomplished.  [Charlie Whipp]  Below, the same tower in the 1960's.  [Doug Leffler collection]

A Wheeling and Lake Erie 2-8-0 pulls a train across Manhatten Jct. interlocking, in the early 1950's.  [Doug Leffler Collection]