It was located along the northwest corner of the Lloyd Street Bridge over the Amtrak Northeast Corridor and SEPTA Wilmington/Newark Line.
[1] The tower suffered from serious neglect after its closure and was demolished in 2017 along with the adjacent Lloyd Street Bridge.
Lamokin Tower was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) to control the Chester Creek Branch at its junction with the Northeast Corridor main line.
Two years later, Hurricane Agnes severely damaged the Chester Creek Line; that branch was not rebuilt and the tower was closed.
In 2017 the tower was demolished along with the adjacent Lloyd Street Bridge, which had been closed to traffic sometime between 2008 and 2012 due to similar structural deterioration.