Cincinnati, OH: B&O Railyards, Roundhouse and Freight House

(No satellite of these yards because most of the B&O land is now part of the Queensgate Yard.)

B&O had several yards along the east side of Mill Creek: A Yard, Brighton Yard, Mill Creek Yard, and the Stock Yard. [DonWinter] I've also seen the yard name Midland.

Lee Drake posted
Super cool image I stumbled across of a view of the B&O yard in Cincy in the early 1940's.
Patrick Rose: That’s Hughes High School at the top of the hill, making this between CUT and the Stockyards, I think.
JayKay Wirsing: Are those Kahn's stockyards on the east side of the tracks?
Parker Rich shared

Dennis DeBruler commented on Patrick's comment
Given the clue about Hughes High School, this photo was probably taken from Hopple Street.
https://goo.gl/maps/6De8yj8fzJ1WWhHy9

Steven M Geisler posted

B&O's Pit Engine Facility.

Cincinnati, OH.  July 1969.

Steven M Geisler shared

Jon Moore: Where was the old yard located?

Rick Westphal: More on the west side of what is now Queensgate. The "Pit" was on the east side of the mains south of RH.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Patrick's comment
The yard latter in the photo doesn't match the track configuration in this topo map. But the gantry in the middle of the photo that has "MORE & OHIO R. R." painted on it does match the team tracks that are just south of the jog in Spring Grove Ave.
1953 Cincinnati West Quad @ 24,000

Dennis DeBruler commented on JyaKay' comment
Yes, they would be.
 https://www.pinterest.com/pin/438960294930685252/
1953 Cincinnati West Quad @ 24,000
[This photo taught me that Kahn's plant was north of Hopple Street. Note B&O's roundhouse. Concordia Sch on the topo is evidently now the DePaul Gristo Rey High School. So the roundhouse used to be on what is a storage yard for Diehl Tool Steel.]

Robert Thomson Flickr
B&O Stockyards, Cincinnati, OH

Reproduced 35mm Slide

Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Cincinnati, OH July 1977 

The Baltimore & Ohio yard at Cincinnati was known as the Stockyards. On July 27, 1977 Dad was at the engine facilities at the Stockyards and caught several units there. From left to right are:

Southern Pacific U33C 8710

Cotton Belt SD45T-2 9282

Baltimore & Ohio GP40-2 4212 (to CSX 6111)

Chesapeake & Ohio GP9 6053

Baltimore & Ohio GP7 5607

I go further south along Mill Creek because of the B&O freight house and for completeness of the yards rebuilt as Queensland. Don Winter provides the name Liberty Yard for the yard between their roundhouse and the CUT tracks. The B&O tracks on the west side of Mill Creek was the CH&D. I presume the yard west of the CUT tracks was Southern. One of the east/west yards near the bottom was the B&O LCL (Less than CarLoad) freight operation.

1953 Cincinnati West and 1955 Covington Quads @ 24,000

These photos taught me about B&O's freight operation.

This is one of those photos.
"Historic photo of the completed B&O freight warehouse, now Longworth Hall, in 1920"
[I picked this one because it also captured two gasometers and two wood grain elevators. Longworth Hall used to be even longer. The east end was torn down to make way for the interstate highways.]

 

Bernie Wagenblast posted
Former B&O Freight Warehouse Longworth Hall - Cincinnati, Ohio https://www.cincinnati.com/.../the-many-uses.../71292092007/
Jim Kelling: Still standing today and similar to the one at Camden Yard, Baltimore.

 

Drew Burkhardt posted
B&O Warehouse in downtown Cincinnati Ohio.

Bill Doering: This is what is left. Part of it was torn down for the I-75 bridge.

Timothy Garvey: The high water mark of the 1937 flood was a brick painted yellow five rows from the top. It was visible to the naked eye until maybe 30 years ago.

Jim Kelling shared

B&O freight station in Cincinnati (similar to the one in Camden Yards, Baltimore)

Chris Mayhew commented on Drew's post
It is about to become shorter by 204 feet. The creation of a companion/second I-75 bridge will necessitate the demolition of the portion in this photo. The remainder, still quite a long building, will remain. The article was one I wrote for the Cincinnati Railroad Club’s newsletter (photo attached).

I read Facebook comments, which I now cannot find, that identified the locomotive generating smoke in Lee's photo as a NYC Hudson. I had noticed that the B&O and NYC paralleled each other on the north side of town. The cartographer put the label "BALTIMORE" on the connector to B&O/CH&D (Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton), but most of those tracks east of that label are also B&O. It is not clear how NYC thread its way through the B&O yard.

1953 Cincinnati West Quad @ 24,000

And they both parallel each other west of town along the Ohio River, but now the B&O is south of the NYC instead of north of it.

1955 Covington Quad @ 24,000