Re: (erielack) erie lackawanna yards

["Michael Dye" <luxpan_@_hotmail.com>]

One addition:

Marion Division:
Huntington, IN: (Huntington Yard) Flat-switching yard, primarily used for 
switching interchange cars for the Wabash (N&W) St. Louis line,  local train 
dispatching point, gathering grain cars/loads from the numerous local 
elevators, UPS piggyback loads to/from Indy/Ft. Wayne. Refueling point. 
During C&E, NYPANO, Erie days, was site of car shops, water tank, 
roundhouse, hotel and livestock pens.

Michael Dye ELHS #1516


>From: "Michael Riley" <wdperson_@_hotmail.com>

>Hello everyone happy new year,
>
>With apologies to everyone who has seen this same thread on the 
>railroad.net
>forum, I am posting the following list of EL yards to the mailing list,
>trying to fill in yards that may have been missed or important information
>that has been left out. What I am trying to do is create a list of Erie
>Lackawanna Rail yards.  Anything that could be classified as a yard such as
>a major system classification yard or a yard that stored cars for local
>businesses.  I have included the divisions as best I know them, then the
>name of the yard or location and then purpose of the yard (classification,
>etc.).  I have received some input on the purpose or need for the yard and 
>I
>have included this after the purpose of the yard in the following list.
>Also, if you know if the yard had any extras (diesel shops, car repair,
>etc.).  Also, what is a divison point yard (i.e. Hornell)?
>
>Marion Division:
>Chicago 55th Street Yard - Piggyback operations
>
>Hammond: (until 1969) - classification yard for Chicago before blocking in
>Marion??????
>
>Marion, OH; Major system Classification Yard, later used to block freight
>for Chicago area railroads. Diesel shops.
>
>Mahoning Division:
>Kent Yard, until abandoned (196x?)
>
>Mahoning Division, First SubDivision
>River Bed Yard (Cleveland, Ohio) Ore Dock Yard???? - River Bed Yard at the
>NYPANO Docks was very cramped with minimal storage capacity. With the short
>tracks and no space, cars were shuttled between RiverBed and North Randall
>where the Erie had ground storage capacity and an overhead gantry.
>
>Literary Street Yard (Cleveland, Ohio) Possibly stored cars for Standard
>Oil?   AFAIK, Literary St. was tha main freight facility for the central
>flats industrial area. LCL traffic was shuttled to the Freight House on
>Scranton Rd. Prior to the Erie moving all of its psgr trains into CUT c.
>1952, psgr traffic moved through Literary St. to the NYC (Big Four)
>interchange at DK Tower to reach the Erie Stn. which was actually located 
>on
>the NYC. NKP transfer freights also moved through Literary St. as they ran
>over the Erie between the NKP E. 55th St. Yard and the former W&LE's
>Campbell Rd. Yard.
>
>The E. 55th St. Yard was later re-named Von Willer Yard in honor of the
>former Erie president. E. 55th was alos the site of the enginehouse. The
>turntable was kept active in Diesel days to turn the single cab units which
>worked the Cleveland / Youngstown trains as well as the NKPBlue Birds which
>worked the Cleveland / St. Louis trains of that rr (NKP had neither
>turntable nor wye in Cleveland). After the Erie and P&LE pooled power
>between Cleveland and Pittsburgh to eliminate the engine change at
>Youngstown, we also saw the P&LE Alco cabs being turned. (I'm told that the
>turntable was also used to turn the occasional business car to insure that
>it was properly pointed.)
>
>North Randall Yard – serviced local industries in the area and stored cars
>for River Bed Yard, see River Bed yard above: cars were shuttled between
>RiverBed and North Randall where the Erie had ground storage capacity and 
>an
>overhead gantry.
>
>Leavittsburg, OH - Leavittsburg was an industrial yard----Cars were set off
>to be delivered to industries. Cars pulled from industries in the North
>Warren area were classed at Leavittsburg for pick up for shipment West,
>Cleveland, Brier Hill and Meadville.
>
>Brier Hill Youngstown, OH (classification yard?)
>
>Ferrona Yard in Sharon, PA. Handled traffic for Shenango Valley and New
>Castle branch. Interchange with NYC Sharon branch; PRR's E&P.
>
>Shenango Yard; Shenango [rr west of Greenville],PA. That was worked by a
>turn. Handled B&LE interchange and Greenville Steel Car and CB&I. Coke off
>B&LE for Ohio Works US Steel; solid trains of ore for Ohio Works too.
>
>Meadville, PA (classification Yard)
>
>Buffalo Division
>Bison Yard, Buffalo, NY (classification yard)
>
>Salamanca, NY (had a classification yard until the early 60s, became a 
>local
>yard and engine servicing facility, crew change point)
>
>East Binghamton - East Binghamton yard, this was the ex-DL&W yard that was
>mothballed for much of EL's 16 year existence. EL used the ex-Erie Chenango
>St yards primarily for local switching. New England interchange was handled
>mostly (I think) by D&H run-throughs that were classified elsewhere (eg,
>Bison).  EL leased Liberty Street Yard at Binghamton from the D&H when EL
>closed East Binghamton. EL used Chenango Street and Liberty Street for 
>local
>service, for traffic to and from Utica and Syracuse, and for classifying
>some of the traffic received from the D&H.   The D&H kept Bevier Street for
>both local service and to classify interchange received from EL. The D&H 
>had
>a policy of classifying its bridge traffic at the interchange into
>destination blocks, so once a car was put into a block at Bevier Street it
>would move in that block to Mechanicville, Rouses Point, or wherever.  When
>the D&H and EL were under common management, each RR blocked cars for the
>other to a greater extent, so some Mechanicville B&M blocks came from
>Meadville or Bison, for instance, and some trains like PB-99 and PB-100
>essentially ran through Binghamton and Mechanicville.
>
>Hornell, NY; Division Point yard and Diesel Shops
>
>Scranton Taylor Yard –
>Port Jervis. -  It classified westbounds received at Maybrook from the New
>Haven, some eastbound traffic for Maybrook and Jersey City, and until 1955,
>eastbound coal from the Wyoming Division. The Wyoming Division coal trains
>ran with the same crew from Avoca via Lackawaxen to Port Jervis.
>
>Croxton Yard (Major system Classification yard)
>
>
>
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