Freight: (Satellite)
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| Jim Detty posted Very rare undated photo (the only one I've ever seen after 30+ years collecting this stuff) from the Bill Glockner Collection, showing both the B&O Portsmouth passenger station and freight station in the same picture. View is looking south along Market Street at 5th Street. The parking lots for Ohio Valley Wholesale and an apartment building occupy these spots today. Neal Reynolds shared Here's some very rare and interesting B&O history from Portsmouth. This line ran up 10th Street and I believe it ran next to the N&W main then went through Sciotoville and up State Route 140 through South Webster and then to Oak Hill, Jackson, and beyond. What a great picture to find! |
The B&O came in from the east and went with N&W through the gap between a mountain and the Ohio River just west of Scioioville.
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| 1913/24 Sciotoville and 1930/30 Greenup Quads @ 62,500 |
The B&O went past the NS/N&W Railyard and then did street running on 10th Street. (The periodic cross lines along 10th Street indicates street running.) N&W turned North at Waller Street, but the B&O continued West. Unfortunately, there isn't a hi-res topo map for the quadrant that has the B&O buildings.
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| 1913/24 Sciotoville Quad @ 62,500 |
So I got an aerial photo. We can see where the B&O curved southwest just before Court Street. It continued on a diagonal until it got to Market Street where it curved South. The freight house filled the entire block between 3rd and 4th Streets and the depot was just north of 4th Street.
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| Apr 23, 1947 @ 24,000; AR1DE0000050170 |
The patch in Court Street marked by the red pin is probably where the B&O used to cross it.
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