Baltimore has several. I think one of them is a stadium now.
Little Rock has a few on both sides of the river with North Little Rock and Jenks as the most important part. It focuses on traffic out of Texas and St Louis but does have a sort of a wye where you can get a train headed to Ft Smith and beyond with some difficulty.
There are also several railheads around as well. Places where whole trains can stop, unload, reload and be on thier way very quickly.
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Not really that big, but for a town of 20,000 its not that small either, but like other yards, it is more used for storage and less for classification from what I can gather, although I am still fairly new in the hobby.
Baltimore: Bayview still exists, from something I read in July or August TRAINS. Don’t know anything about the size of it. The former Camden Yard is now the site of the Camden Yards baseball stadium (original name, huh?). Neat stadium, made more so by the presence of the former B&O Warehouse (Freighthouse?) immediately adjacent to the stadium. Believe the warehouse was at one time, many years ago, the longest building on the East Coast. The building is about 1000 feet in length, IIRC.
The former Rock Island yard was being torn out before we left Hot Springs in early 1986. We passed it on an elevated interstate, I-30 I guess, going into Little Rock. It was sad to see it being torn out. It was a pretty sizable yard as I recall.
Three of the four yds in Wichita remain in use. The UP main functions are based @ the former Mopac yd, built in 1906 while next door the former RI/Katy yd, built in 1911 is used but on a less extent. BNSF yd is the former SF North Wichita yd built in 1913. Just east of there is what’s left of the former Frisco/BN yd, built in 1953. Only a couple trks remain at this location. Interesting story on the SF and RI yds, both terminals were first located downtown. Way back in 1911-1912, a two mile section of trk was elevated above street level downtown and in addition, this project included the construction of a Union Station. Because of all this, both SF & RI were required to vacate their downtown yds and both carriers selected sites in the north end industry district for new freight yds. Up 25 miles northward, is Sand Creek yd @ Newton which SF built in 1906 and is the 2nd most busy BNSF terminal in KS next to Kan City
The NS Princeton Yard ,in Princeton , IN., not a big yard but since the Toyota plant opened to the South of the yard it has gone through a major expansion , it is still not the Hub it was through the 1950’s , but most of the shop buildings are still there.I grew up by this yard .
I currently work at the BNSF yard in ELwood .IL. this is a new yard that is always expanding , it fairly large and very busy.
I live in Spartanburg, SC, and we have 3 rail yards, all of which are pretty small. The largest is Norfolk Southern’s Hayne Yard. Hayne Yard is still used a good bit and stays pretty busy for a smaller town. NS used to have a pretty good sized yard at Hayne Shop as well, a car shop for the Southern Railway, but most of it has been torn up, there are a few tracks left for storage.
CSX has two yards, which don’t get used too much for classification. There is the old Clinchfield Yard, which sees alot of through coal trains stopping for crew changes. CSX also has another small yard which used to belong to the ACL, but I don’t know too much about it.
So they’ve put in an overpass on the east end of Mansfield? Is this at the Illinois Road crossing? On my layout, I’ve been thinking about doing a scene with an overpass under construction.
Kevin
Altoona…
puny, uneventful, almost dead, and nocturnal.
No yards in my town, but we’ve got two industrial sidings.
Kevin,
You are correct - that’s the Illinois Ave. crossing. I haven’t been up there since it’s been finished, but hope to in the next couple weeks. With the office changing yard ends, and the overpass now, it may be hard to get descent pictures of waiting trains.
Chase Z.
No yards in my town, but I am close to both UP’s Proviso (about 10 minutes away) and BNSF’s Clyde (about 15 minutes away)
When I lived in LaGrange Park, the IHB had small storage yard right behind my building, (4 storage tracks) that they used for storing coal hoppers for a local power plant. CSX would drop about 100 hoppers every other week, and the IHB would take them out in strings of 30 or so, and then the yard would be empty for about a week or so, less in the summer.
No yards in Lombard. Not even an industrial spur any more, or crossovers between mainline tracks. They do, however, park trains on our main line west of town sometimes.
Nearest yard is Proviso, about six miles away as the trains fly. From all reports, it’s pretty big.
Im in Clarendon Hills Illinois a couple blocks off the BNSF lines from Chicago to Aurora, no yard in my town but there used to be a siding for some business 20 some years ago but it got torn up when the place it serviced went out of business (i wanna say it was a gravel place but I cant remember, condo’s there now)
Oh yeah, tell me about it! Who wouldn’t want to see unit coal trains roaring through the canyon west of Midway, through the Jura loops and across the Myra Canyon trestles! I believe that the KVR was the finest bit of railroading on the entire continent, and it makes me very sad that I missed that era.
I’m in Calgary, so we have quite a few different yards! You probably know the size of Alyth, though [;)]
I sure do remember the size of Alyth Yards. I used to cross over the bridge that spanned the west edge of it when I headed to Blackfoot Truck Stop. The rail yards took ones breath away. But now I live in Nelson B.C. where I got a job. But I never understood why Canadian Pacific stopped rail service between Castlegar and Spences Bridge. Especially now with all the coal trains coming out the Elk Valley. Instead of running all of them along the main line from Golden to Mission, why not have 2 or 3 coal trains run along the Boundary Subdivision to ease the congestion on the main line. Plus if they kept the Cranbrook to Port Coquitam train running along there, it may have keep local rail traffic going.
Yeah, but could you get anything you want at Alyth’s Restaurant?
[}:)] made me say it!
8X10 glossies?
It seems like a good idea on paper, but somehow I think that the lines wouldn’t exactly be the best route for 114 car coal trains!
No yard here unless you count the 4 tracks at the grain elevator out back. Other that that it’s bout 30 mile N, S, or E to any.
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Here in Columbus, Georgia, NS runs a fairly busy, mid sized yard. There are a few items that make it interesting. First, there is a division change point- so you can watch train crews change. (Columbus is the division change between Birmingham, AL, and Macon, GA.) Second, there’s a diesel service pad, and that usually has a varied collection of leased, old Conrail, and new NS units. Third, there is a car repair facility with RIP track. The yard does classification as well as train service- serving four cardinal directions. From Columbus Yard, you can go north towards LaGrange- this line used to connect with Atlanta, but is being abandoned. You can go south towards Albany, GA. The mainline for NS goes to Macon in the east and Birmingham in the west. The only downside is that there are clearance problems between Columbus and Birmingham which prohibit double stack container trains.
The yard has been in place for well over a century, and used to have a full scale steam roundhouse, with turntable. City businessmen are trying to get the city to force NS to leave- and you can hear the laughter all the way down from Roanoke.