Harrisburg Chapter NRHS
Harris Tower Preservation
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| The restoration of HARRIS tower. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| An article with pictures showing the progress being made in restoring the interior of HARRIS tower and the model board to simulated operation. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Article about HARRIS tower. (PDF format, 282K)
This article from the October 1930 issue of Railway Signaling describes the then-brand
new installation of HARRIS tower. Railway Signaling is a publication of the
Simmons-Boardman Company
of Chicago and is provided here with their permission. Scanning and
OCR [optical character recognition] by MDB. It is in PDF format, and
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| Application for listing on the
National Register of Historic Places
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| Article appearing in
Penndustry
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| Photographs of HARRIS
| Conrail Office Car Special passing HARRIS tower A picture of Ralph R. Watts, Sr., father of former chapter member (now deceased) Ralph R. Watts and grandfather of former chapter member Randy Watts. Randy Watts provides this information on the photo: it was taken in 1938, as recently confirmed. Ralph Sr. was born in 1890 and died in 1955. He worked a rotating shift and also worked at State Tower. In his right hand, he holds the plug for engaging into the operators desk receptacle the headset he is wearing around his neck. (Click on the thumbnails below for larger images.)
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