Spruce St Yards

Photo of the Month - April 2010

ca. 1952-55 PRR Spruce Street Yards

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1
Spruce Street 11 PRR Coal Tower

2
Dennison Avenue
12
Pullman and Dining Car Yard

3

Big Four (NYC) Main Line

(also used by the B&O)

13
Commissary

4
PRR Bradford Main Line
14
NYC Turntable

5
C&O Main Line
15
Remains of NYC Roundhouse

6
PRR-C&O Interchange
16
NYC Coach Yard

7
PRR Roundhouse
17
HV Cabin/Olentangy Interlocking Tower

8
PRR Power House
18
C&O Yard A

9
PRR Coach Yard
19
C&O-PRR interchange for passenger trains headed to CUS

10
PRR Ready Track
20
Lead to C&O freight house

Another aerial photo of the Pennsy's Spruce Street Yards, Big Four's Dennison Avenue Yards, and C&O's Yard A. North is toward the right of the photo. Columbus Union Station and High Street are off the photo to the bottom (east). The PRR's Grandview Yard is off the photo to the top (west). Photo from the Galen Gonser Collection.

The PRR Spruce Street roundhouse is being torn down and it looks like dead steam is in storage. Steam maintenance has been moved to the St. Clair Avenue round house on the east side of Columbus. Around 1955-56 the Ohio Railway Museum was allowed to remove a few hundred feet of track from the PRR yard for use at the museum.