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Satellite, the southern part of the yard complex is west of
NS's Gest Street Yard)
Tower: (
Satellite, probably where that equipment cabinet now sets.)
Not only was this yard huge, it still is. The name Queensgate Yard was very familiar. But evidently not because I have written notes about it, but because it is the destination of many of the trains coming north over
a Ohio River bridge.
This is one of the few CSX hump yards that Hunter did not close. In fact, it has been rather recently upgraded. [
TrainOrders]
The above street views were taken from the Western Hills Viaduct. The following two photos of that viaduct also include good views of this yard.
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Dennis DeBruler posted
Queensgate Railyard, Cincinnati, OH A brochure claims: "Queensgate Railyard, the largest active railyard in the country." I thought UP's Baily Yard in North Platte, NE, was the largest in the USA. Erik Landrum: It's not top 5 in size, but it's plenty busy and has been completely rebuilt and modernized over the past five years, including a newly expanded locomotive shop. Edit: that's a fairly old photo, at least 15 years ago. David Rogers: We been seeing over 1000 cars a night on the inbound side just on 3rd shift alone. Michael Irvin: RICE, Selkirk, Radnor and Queensgate |
Bill Rettberg Jr.
posted two photos with the comment: "Before there was a Queensgate Yard in Cincinnati, there was a mish mash of yards, but it was always interesting to just stand on a bridge and watch all of the maneuvering. A couple of images from the early 70s."
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Bud Kula posted
A string of cars get "humped" at CSX's Queensgate Yard in Cincinnati as SD40-3 4043 passes under the hump with a long string of tank cars. (14 Jul 2016)
Keith Edward I thought they were removing all the hump yards as obsolete.
Andrew Stephenson At CSX, the hump yards at Waycross, Selkirk, Cincinnati, Nashville, and Avon are still active. |
Please access
C&OHS Convention in Covington, KY - CSX Queensgate Yard for several photos of the yard.
Queensgate Yard was built in the late 1970s, opening in 1980, to replace the yards of the Chessie System's constituents in the Cincinnati area, including not only the five former C&O and B&O yards covered over by the new yard (A Yard, Brighton Yard, Mill Creek Yard, and the Stock Yard, all B&O, plus C&O's Liberty Yard), but also the C&O yard at Silver Grove (which had a 26-track eastbound classification hump and a 14-track westbound flat-switched yard). After the formation of CSX, the former L&N De Coursey Yard (which had two humps) was closed in favor of Queensgate in 1984, as was the former B&O Oakley yard in 1987. Coincidentally, perhaps, Conrail closed the former PRR Undercliff Yard in 1980 and the former NYC Sharonville hump yard in 1987. The NS (former Southern) Gest Street Yard is the only pre-1980 yard in the Mill Creek Valley that still survives. Queensgate Yard has eight reception tracks, 50 classification tracks and six departure tracks. The yard sorts about 2000 cars per day (with a theoretical capacity of 3200 cars per day). In 1995, the yard built manifest trains destined for Ashland, KY, Chicago, Columbus, southward on the L&N to Corbin and beyond (5 trains), Detroit (3), Indianapolis, southwestward on the L&N to Louisville and beyond (6 trains), Russell, KY (2), Saginaw, MI, St. Louis (4), Toledo, Dayton, and Willard, OH (3). New destinations since adding part of Conrail in 1999 include Selkirk, NY, and several others.
[DonWinter]
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CincyRails
Queensgate Yard is one of the largest rail classification facilities in North America. With a length of approximately five miles and over 70 miles of track, Queensgate is one of the most productive hump yards on the CSX system. Constructed at a cost of over 71 million dollars with the purpose of consolidating several small yards in the area, the yard was dedicated on October 20, 1981. |
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Bob Eisthen posted
This is the pull-down end of CSX' Queensgate Yard in Cincinnati on August 15, 2015 as seen from the Hopple Street Viaduct.
Unfortunately, I've lost some memory and can't recognize the model of locomotive of the 1605 and 1601 that are the rear-most of the power in the frame.
Stu Levene They are RP20CDs
Andy Minning They were rail power gensets. They got rid of them a couple years ago.
Stu Levene https://www.railpictures.net/photo/364886/ |
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Darrel Land posted
CSXT 2415 At Queensgate Yd working the hump in Cincinnati, Ohio |
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Chris Strogen posted
Northbound Chessie System comes up through Queensgate Yard in 1982. Photo By Randy Strogen |
The RH Tower was at the northern throat of the yard.
Steven M Geisler posted two photos with the comment: "B&O I12 "Wagon Top" caboose C2479 passing RH Tower. RH Tower. Cincinnati, OH. Dec. 1970"
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