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RE: (erielack) Cleveland E55th Street Roundhouse



Hello,

Yes that explains what I saw, thanks for clearing that
up.

Mike Spinelli

- --- "J. Henry Priebe Jr." <root_@_net.bluemoon.net>
wrote:

> Schuyler,
> 
> That was the same location of the roundhouse and
> engine facility as the USGS
> map snippet I uploaded to the list. I think Mike
> wrote what he meant to.
> 
> I have that map as part of larger 1948 USGS map I
> pieced together of the
> entire Clevalnd area. In my 1934 "Unification of
> Facilities Cleveland Ohio
> General Map of Railroad Facilities" it also shows
> the E55th St roundhouse
> there. A 1964 NKP map also shows it there.
> 
> I have looked around the tracks in all directions in
> Sanborn maps and Google
> Earth and I see nothing which resembles a roundhouse
> aside from the actual
> location of the Erie roundhouse. Today it is a
> junkyard and parking lot. There
> is a rhomboid building just east of E 65th St and
> south of the tracks which
> still stands which at one time had a spur off the
> Erie. From the track side it
> might be possible to mistake it as a wall of a
> roundhouse, but the building
> antedates the spur. It's at Morgan and E65th St.
> 
> There are still 5 tracks where EL's E 55th St Yard
> was and it appears to be
> used fairly frequently.
> 
> Henry
> 
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