Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Avis, PA: NYC Roundhouse, Backshop and Transfer Table

The railyard no longer exists.
Roundhouse: (Satellite)
Backshop and Transfer Table: (Satellite)

The transfer table still exists.
Street View, Aug 2015

Tim Starr posted
The new roundhouse, shops, and yard at Avis (Oak Grove) Pennsylvania for the New York Central Penn. Division in 1902. The NYC made an effort to directly access some of the Pennsylvania coal that was making the PRR rich. (Railroad Gazette)
David W Chandler: That’s a pretty big shop and transfer table.
Lincoln Sander IV: David W Chandler Coal hoppers get a lot of abuse

1944/44 Lock Haven @ 62,500

Apr 5, 1963 @ 27,000; AR1VALS00020070

Digitally Zoomed

Since part of the roundhouse was already torn down in 1963, I got an older aerial even though it has less resolution.
Oct 25, 1956 @ 60,000; ARA550340060677

I don't see any tracks between the transfer table and the building, but it does look like it is still used to access some storage tracks.
Satellite

They have their own trackmobile to help move the gondolas around.
Satellite

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