This crossroads in a “rectangular state” had two Class Is. The first Class I to reach this location crossed the hills on what later became double-track, descending a long grade into this town where it split into two major routes, both single-track. One of the routes had a fairly famous name. A good-sized yard paralleling the creek classified traffic in both directions. The double-track was interesting because it was on the same alignment but often the tracks were not at the same elevation (split grades). The town was not a county seat.
The other Class I was just passing through, plunging down into the valley past the back doors of the brick business district, crossing the first Class I on a diamond, then just as abruptly climbing the other side of the valley on its way west.
After some mergers the two Class Is junctioned here, and all of the business on one of them turned the corner and took the other.
One of the Class Is favored GRS and its color-lights had purple backlights. The other was mostly a US&S road and sometimes used a very unusual color-light type also favored by NYC. Both roads had ABS through this crossroads.
S. Hadid