Ok I live near by this Town and Conrail used to have the Rail yard Now it NS but I' more interested in finding Information of the Rail yard . As I live near By Mingo Junction and I would like to include in my plans for my first attemp at modelrail roading My own Area
Have you gotten an answer yet?? (I know you posted this question in multiple forums.) I confess that I do not know anything about that area Harold
not as of Yet , but I am hopeing to get to the library and see if i can find more information on the rail yard . In one of the pic archives I did find a airial picture of the round house and surounding yard , I cant imagine that a round house and yard with over "20 +" locos housed and maintained in the yard not have caught enough attention that it was totally forgoten or lost.. I have found that the history so far was the Yard was operated buy PRR then Penn-Central , then Conrail and now is operated by NS . Not sure if its a busy yard but the trains roll through 3 or 4 times a Day as soon as I get some film and some nice sunny days, I plan to get some Loco pics [ 30 January 2002, 03:38: Message edited by: Wolv_Cub ]
I know Mingo Jcn was where the big Alco's were hanging out during early Conrail! Quite a funky era to model! Check out Terraserver and see if they have sateillite shots & older maps of the area (they have for most of the US) the link is here. The maps & sateillite pics are zoomable so you can pretty much work out the layout of tracks & from the sateillite pics approximate the size of surviving buildings. (there's a scale on the pics) Of course it depends on what era you're modelling, if you're modelling it as it is now then your best bet is to go there, photograph everything you can, and try & get a feel for what's special about that bit of railroad. If you're doing a historical model then a site visit can still be useful as it still gives you an idea of where things are/were, and there may still be structures or other things that haven't changed much. Oh, and you can pick up some interesting things from web searches, even from local town history sites, do lots of searches with as many combinations of relevant keywords as you can. Hope that's of some help. Let us know how you get on!
Thanks Martin , I have it bookmarked for later use , and I guess on my next day off I will have to visit the yard and check on some things I remeber a control tower but I dont see it in on any of the photos . but the railbeds of where the roundhouse was stands out nicely. here is the URL for pic of the round house that i did find on George Elwood's Pennsylvania Railroad site. http://www.dnaco.net/~gelwood/other/prr.html its in the list as mingo junction yard, its about 1/4 of the way down the page [ 30 January 2002, 20:36: Message edited by: Wolv_Cub ]
Wooo Hooo finally got a day to visit the Mingo Junction Terminal yesterday . asked permision from the yard master to take a few pics .. didnt stay long but I hopefully got a nice side veiw of a renumbered conrail GP-38 3368 and a couple of the gondolas and coal hoppers. couldnt get too close was told to take the pictures from the parking lot , they couldnt give permision to actuall enter the property. While talking with the yardmaster ( I believe thats who it was he was at a desk with a computer and a couple radios) asked about some information and he reached into a desk drawer and pulled out a copy of yard map. even shows where the passenger lead rail and possibly the same track that led to the old roundhouse . as Soon as I can get it scaned in and get the pics I took developed I will post them aslso saw a conrail GP38 that was renumbered but its old number was covered in black and had the PPR logo under the new number 1438 I think the number was . I will try to get a picture of the renumbered PPR engine when I see it again
