Photo of the Month - April 2010
ca. 1952-55 PRR Spruce Street Yards
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1 |
Spruce Street |
11 |
PRR Coal Tower |
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2 |
Dennison Avenue |
12 |
Pullman and Dining Car Yard |
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3 |
Big Four (NYC) Main Line
(also used by the B&O) |
13 |
Commissary |
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4 |
PRR Bradford Main Line |
14 |
NYC Turntable |
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5 |
C&O Main Line |
15 |
Remains of NYC Roundhouse |
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6 |
PRR-C&O Interchange |
16 |
NYC Coach Yard |
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7 |
PRR Roundhouse |
17 |
HV Cabin/Olentangy Interlocking Tower |
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8 |
PRR Power House |
18 |
C&O Yard A |
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9 |
PRR Coach Yard |
19 |
C&O-PRR interchange for passenger trains headed to
CUS |
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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.
