CKLW was a favorite AM radio station in Cleveland in the 1960’s & '70’s. It was a clear channel station and could be heard easily. They had a great news department (for a radio station) and a Hotline News Tip of the Year Award–which I won in 1975–of $1,000.00. I miss that station, likewise I miss the old WJR and its Sunday morning music shows.
I can still hear the jingles, “CKLW------the Motor City.” “WJR–high atop the Fisher Building in Detroit.” AM radio was great in those years.
I agree. I was kidding by using a play on words that I accept your except. You are correct. 
Rich
Not too many people listened to both WJR and CKLW, which were targeted towards different demographics. I found WKYC in Cleveland interesting–in the early 1950s NBC forced Westinghouse to trade their Philadelphia and Cleveland stations. Westinghouse’s KYW moved to Cleveland and embraced a rock format, becoming highly rated and profitable. The NBC station in Philly, like all other NBC O&Os, eschewed rock and was lowly rated. Westinghouse successfully sued to reverse the trade and thus NBC ended up owning a rock station, It was always weird hearing the NBC news sounder following a rock record.
The Detroit competitor of CKLW was WKNR–Keener 13.
CKLW was 50,000 watts so I got to hear it in New Jersey, whereas WKNR was 5,000 watts and only available locally. Wasn’t WXYZ, the Detroit ABC station, also a rock station?
IIRC, WXYZ-FM became WRIF. Back in the early 70s, there were three Detroit area hard rock stations–WRIF, WABX and CJOM.
I thought that Detroit was Motown. WLS and WCFL ruled the airwaves in Chicago in the 60s and 70s when it came to first rock n’ roll, then hard rock. 
Rich
What does Motown have to do with rock stations? We also had Bob Seger, Ted Nugent, Rare Earth, Grand Funk (Flint), MC5, etc.
OK, now Bob Seger I will grant you. I love that guy. I told my wife long ago to play Night Moves in the background at my wake. My absolute No. 1 song of all time, closely followed by Like a Rock.
Grand Funk Railroad? We’re An American Band. Way up there too.
Rich
There is a roundhouse and turntable in Niles Michigan, at a complex that was once a MC rider hump yard. IHB’s Gibson yard was also originally a MC hump yard.
I thought that was worth a search. Found an old photo and a newer photo. Thanks for posting.
Rich
Behind the roundhouse is the old erecting shop, which also is still there.
That is cool that the erecting shop is still there.
Rich
Found this cool old photo.
The Broad Street crossing in Griffith Indiana, just a few miles southeast of Hammond, was quite a junction in its heyday when five railroads crossed 11 tracks forming 14 diamonds - the Michigan Central, Grand Trunk, Erie, Elgin Joliet & Eastern and the Chesapeake & Ohio. The photo is from the 1930s.
Source: NWI Times
Here is the color version.
Source: NWI Times
That’s crazy so many different angles there
Isn’t that something?
Rich
Any photos of its current configuration?
Wow, that proved to be a tall order. LOL. I copied this current photo off Google Maps. I cannot quite figure out the orientation of those old photos, but the Google Image is looking due north. A lot has changed at the junction. Looking at the Google Image, the track running southwest to northeast is the old MC/EJ&E lines. The track running southeast to northwest is the old GTW line. That third track running diagonally between the GTW track and Broad Street is the old Erie line. At one time, the C&O track joined the Erie track just south of the junction, but I cannot see any sign of it on the Google Image. There are several connection tracks in the Google Image that are not evident in the old photo.
Rich
I need to make a correction. On my previous post, I was typing without looking at the photo. I have attached a broader view of the junction below.
The Erie track is no longer there. However, you can see the bare land where it was, running on a southeast to northwest diagonal across the junction. You can also see where the C&O joined the Erie just south of the junction. The C&O track is also no longer there. The C&O track ran between the Erie and GTW in that photo.
Rich
The MC line was the “Joliet Cutoff” branch to Joliet, Illinois. It lasted into the Penn Central years but did not make it into Conrail. The new connecting track from the GTW to the EJ&E is the connection from CN(GTW) to CN(EJ&E)'s Kirk Yard.
The C&O and Erie/EL each maintained one track of their shared line to State Line Crossing. Erie/EL trains joined the C&WI at State Line. C&O trains (in pre-C&O/B&O years) used NKP’s Calumet yard and engine terminal.
