Portsmouth, OH: Wheeling Steel and N&W Railyard, 2 Roundhouses & Backshops

Steel: (Satellite, actually, it was in New Boston in the triangle between US-52, the tracks and West Ave.)

Roundhouse East: (Satellite)

Roundhouse West: (Satellite)

Jeremy Lydon posted
Wheeling Steel Corporation-Portsmouth Plant-Rod and Nail Mills (Dr. Raymond Boothe Collection).

I started with a topo map, that is when I found the roundhouse.

1930/40 Greenup Quad @ 62,500

But I didn't see a lot of industrial action, so I go an aerial photo. That is when I noticed that there used to be two roundhouses. The buildings in the photos match the empty triangle in the topo map. And they are now all gone. I wonder what the industry was east of Grace Street. Three buildings are still standing, and they are doing steel work.

Apr 23, 1947 @ 24,000; AR1DE0000050168

We can still see some remnants of the northern part of the eastern roundhouse. The western roundhouse has been completely replaced with access tracks to the old backshops. The backshops are now owned by Velocity Rail Solutions. I included the bend in the eastbound US-52 road because that helped locate the roundhouses.

Satellite

These three buildings are in the aerial photo.

Satellite

Norfolk Southern has retained a lot of the tracks in the railyard.