Another State Line Tower ground perspective as an Erie Lackawanna caboose departs the interlocking and begins to disappear into the westerly horizon.

We are visually treated to a sampling of the scores of switch and signal pipeline rodding that had sprouted from the east, west and south sides of the tower's foundation.

Also, for decades your webmaster had wondered the reason of why State Line Tower had featured large square sections of light colored brick, which had strongly contrasted against a darker shade of brick; as illustrated in the above photo.

This puzzling matter was solved when Yours Truly came across a very old photo of the tower, when it was still new. In its original build configuration, State Line Tower had featured very large, prominent glass windows along the lower floor.

Windows that perhaps, in the days of gas and kerosene lighting, had admitted a tremendous volume of natural sunlighting into the tower, allowing interlocking maintainers to see what they were keeping in good and reliable repair.

I suppose those large windows had also allowed non-rail folk to view the inner workings of State Line Tower's mechanical brain. Even to sneak inside, with the malicious prankster intent of 'screwing up the works'.

When the electric grid and the incandescent light bulb had reached the tower, that's probably when the big glass windows came out, new brick along with severely smaller windows went up.