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[[File:Essay Tower.jpg|right|thumb|Essay Tower in May&nbsp;2015]]<br />
'''Essay Tower''' or '''SA Tower''' was a former [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] interlocking tower in [[South Amboy, New Jersey]].<br />
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== History ==<br />
Essay Tower was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad to control traffic coming off the [[Camden and Amboy Railroad]] and the [[Perth Amboy and Woodbridge Railroad]]. The tower was in later years used to control the South Amboy Engine Facilities for the [[New York and Long Branch Railroad]]. Where the [[electric locomotive]] was exchanged for a [[steam locomotive]] or in later years a [[diesel-electric locomotive]]. The tower served through the shortly-lived [[Penn Central]], and then [[Conrail]] followed by [[New Jersey Transit]] from 1983 on. The tower closed on a warm July 2, 1986, when a [[GE E60]] electric handed train 104 to an [[EMD F40PH]] Diesel-Electric Locomotive.<ref>Mark 1 Video; "New York and Long Branch Railroad" more information [http://prr.railfan.net/lists/PRRVideos.html available here]</ref><br />
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==Current status==<br />
Essay Tower closed following the [[Railway electrification system|electrification]] to [[Long Branch, New Jersey]] and service is now automated. <br />
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In 2023, as part of the [[Raritan Bay Drawbridge]] replacement project, the tower was demolished to make way for the right of way that will be shifted to the left, thus occupying the land the tower occupied. <br />
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