IGN-MoP yard in Sugar Land, circa 1938. Must be lining up for food, some kind of barbecue or celebration.
Shot of part of the Heart of Georgia (HOG) yard, Americus, GA. GP40 6409, of obvious CN ancestry and now a leaser from RMPX, is sitting dead. Notice center-beam flats behind unit. Several ex-SOU pass. cars are in this yard, used as fodder for the SAM Shortline excursion train from Cordele to Plains. Two other GP40s (the 1540, in HOG colors,and LLPX 3109 in CSX MofW orange ) were on the SAM train this day, while a GP9 lay deeper in the yard. Since I didn't have a zoom lens nor an appetite to face a judge in a trespassing trial in the Deep South, I didn't get the road number.
See the gates behind the crowd? Probably not the mainline as the tracks are closed off? Private industry? Interesting picture.
Correct, everything this side of the fence was Imperial Sugar Company and on the other was Mo Pac yard. At the far end there was a wye with the left leg looping around to interchange with the Southern Pacific.Trains would run through the plant on their way to Houston as there were gates on the other end also. There are two 4-6-0s parked under the fuel tank in the background.
Alco Locomotive Works Yard This is the yard in Capreol Ontario, Most of these are waiting to be rebuilt. And one of the CN yard nextdoor! David
This is NS's Benson yard here in Bucyrus,Oh..It is used to hold cars for Transco Railway Products..A contract freight car rebuilder.
Butler Yard on the Buffalo & Pittsburgh, Butler, PA (about 25 minutes from my home). The tracks off to the left are the Bessemer & Lake Erie (CN).The B&LE's Calvin Yard lies on the other side of the highway underpass at rear. Ray
Here’s a couple, INRR yard Palastine, IL CSX yard [NYC] Paris, ILL IC/CN yard Mattoon, ILL I think I’ve got a couple more, just have to find them inch
The sun begins to set on Mojave yard. A busy day of switching the Pine, and making up the Blitz, has come to an end. But the constant roar of east and westmans will be heard all night long. Bottom end, east Mojave. dwarf at the bottom end of Mojave yard
CSX (ex-SCL) yard, Manchester, GA, north end, looking south. Train at left has just come off the Atlanta line and will continue south on the Fitzgerald Sub to Waycross. Manchester also has a railfan platform just north of the bridge I shot this pic from. Great place to watch trains (40-60 a day)!
San Antono East Yard San Antonio Espee East Yard taken from the New Braunfels Ave bridge. The ten arrival/departure tracks are two miles long. The other twenty tracks are about one mile long. This was once a flat switching classification yard (A 180 degree, tight turn yard lead on the west end; screaming flanges all the way!), but I believe it now only repairs cars. The auto loading has recently been moved to Kirby Yard, so East Yard continues to decline in importance to the system. Here is George Elwood's picture of San Antonio East Yard taken from the Olive Street Bridge in Sep, 1967. He is on the west end of the yard looking east. The old New Braunfels Ave bridge can be seen crossing the yard with several truss spans. This bridge is now a modern concrete type.
