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RE: (erielack) Mahoning Division Yards

> The PRR had a couple of small storage yards in the area of Republic Steel. 
> If you look at a map it appears that the PRR was the serving line for 
> Republic as is ran along the plant while the EL was 3/4 mile or so away as was 
> the B&O. The B&O has a spur running to the plant from the Old Main that 
> crosses Pine Street near the mill and that is the way all freight goes in 
> and out of the steel plant complex including serving the coke works that is 
> no longer owned by the same group that owns the Republic plant. Republic 
> Steel was a customer for the EL, B&O and PRR but only the B&O actually served 
> them. The PRR and EL left cars in the support yards and the B&O served the 
> mill by delivering and pulling the cars for the other roads. They were 
> paid a hefty amount for this by EL and PRR.

 

There must be an interesting "railwar" story about that in the hazy past. Must be one of the few times the Pennsy lost a battle for a major customer back in "the good olde days". Funny that a shoestring line from B&O would get the customer when a somewhat major pennsy line is right there.

 

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> Exactly. Meadville had the eastbound yard on the EB side and the 
> westbound yard on the WB side with the mains down the center. Brier Hill had #1 
> and #2 South Yard on the south side of the EB main, The yard itself was on 
> the north side of the WB mains. (#1 and #2 South Yard were basically for 
> delivering ore and pulling empties from YS&T Brier Hill Works)
> 
> EB trains yarding at Brier Hill would cross over at VO and pull through the 
> extension track into the yard or cross over at the West end and pull in 
> the yard but most of the time, they came down the main east of the east end 
> and crossed over and backed in.
> 
> SMT
Important info there, I'll just have them cross over, as the east end of my Brier Hill will be the east end staging behind a wall. I also had to aputate the "new" yard, it makes the yard far to wide. I took the orgional 19 track main yard and compressed it by about half to fit in the 36" wide frame.
 		 	   		  

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