Columbus Army Service Forces Depot
From the Sky - June, 1946
The Army Depot was started during World War I with the purchase of 281 acres in April, 1918. Construction of the first six warehouses and the railroad tracks commenced in May, 1918. World War II brought further expansion with the December, 1942, purchase of an additional 295 acres on the east side of the original site. In this 1946 view the camera is looking east with the Curtiss-Wright factory and Port Columbus in the top left corner.
| 1. | East Fifth Avenue |
| 2. | Yearling Road |
| 3. | Hamilton Road |
| 4. | East Broad Street |
| 5. | The Army Depot Railroad Yard |
| 6. | Joint Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Main Line. |
| 7. | The Curtiss-Wright Corporation's World War II aircraft plant. After the war the building would be used by the Lustron Corporation to manufacture pre-fab houses. In the 1950s North American Aviation would return the plant to aircraft manufacture. |
| 8. | Port Columbus Terminal |
| 9. | Site of the 1929 PRR's Port Columbus Station used for joint Pennsylvania Railroad/ Transcontinental Air Transport (T-A-T) Train-to-Plane service. |
| 1. | Stelzer Road. |
| 2. | Army Depot Golf Course |
| 3. | New York Central (T&OC) - the line was built as the Columbus, Shawnee & Hocking Railway in 1880. It would become part of the Zanesville & Western before the Toledo & Ohio Central took it over. |
| 1. | East Fifth Avenue |
| 2. | New York Central (T&OC) |
| 3. | The Army Depot Railroad Yard |
| 4. | Rail spur for aircraft plant |
| 5. | The Curtiss-Wright Corporation's World War II aircraft plant. After the war the building would be used by the Lustron Corporation to manufacture pre-fab houses. In the 1950s North American Aviation would return the plant to aircraft manufacture. |
| 6. | Joint Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Main Line. |