Washington, DC: (WMATA+Amtrak)/B&O Railyards

Amtrak/B&O Yard: (Satellite)

Brentwood Coaling Towers: (Satellite)

Ivy City Coaling Tower and Roundhouse: (Satellite, this has been totally rebuilt to serve electric locomotives)

WMATA/B&O Brentwood Yard: (Satellite)

This is where I found the coaling towers.

Street View, Aug 2021

It looks like there was a big and a little coaling tower.

Street View

Hover Solutions, Oc t2019

 

3D Satellite

Marty Bernard posted
3. B&O next to Washington D.C. yards, slide purchased from Blackhawk Films. Bill Howes collection
Marty Bernard shared

I think Bill took the photo from the New York Avenue Bridge. In his photo, they must be removing the T Street viaduct. The maintenance facility and coaling towers were evidently added after Bill's photo was taken.

3D Satellite

Tom Luna, Jul 2022

I did not realize that the B&O had these yards. But the B&O has the "spokes" to the North and East, so they must have had both of these yards. I had assumed that Pennsy had the spoke to the North as part of its NEC.I learned that Pennsy had a spoke to the East just south of B&O's eastern spoke until it got to Montana Ave. And Pennsy had a spoke to the south of Union Station in a tunnel. B&O trains evidently terminated here, so they needed extensive yard space.

1951 Washington West and 1979 Washington East Quads @ 24,000

EarthExplorer; Jul 5, 1951 @ 8,000; AR1DCWAS0010005

Ivy City Locomotive Service Facility

Rick Smith posted
A mixed-breed trio of B&O and C&O stags engage in fixes at the neighborhood watering hole and coaling tower, while a "foreigner" appears to look on from the sanding rack, at the jointly used Ivy City locomotive facility - Washington, DC, 1950.
[photo - © District DoT, Leonard W. Rice phgr]
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Dennis DeBruler commented on Rick's post
No wonder the tower could serve six tracks. The two turntables would indicate that they moved a lot of locomotives into and out of the roundhouse.
In this 1951 aerial photo, I include the streets of Fairview, Kendall and Fenwick along the south side to help correlate the location of this photo with today's satellite images.
Lee Higgins: Dennis DeBruler I've never seen this view before! That was a beautiful track plan. Ivy City was my favorite train watching spot and I also worked at The Hecht Co warehouse, the structure at the right casting the long shadow.