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| Portsmouth Public Library 1913 Colorized image of the railroad yards & shops along the Ohio River, Kentucky hills in background. unknown, “The N & W Railroad Shop, Portsmouth, Ohio,” Local History Digital Collection, accessed March 23, 2021, https://www.yourppl.org/history/items/show/17267. |
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| Tyrone Hemry posted N & W round house Portsmouth, OH Patr Scott posted The RR Employed a lot of people back in those days. Jonathan Brier: looks like an open air gantry crane on the right side of the picture... and a bunch of locomotive parts on the ground under it?? Collin McLaughlin II: One of my home terminal’s (before I retired) on the Kenova District. You can still see some of the concrete and rails where the roundhouse was in this picture. [see below] There’s two million gallon fuel tanks over some of it now. I’ve heard almost 1,000 people alone worked in the shops , which included paint , building and wheel facilities . Not to mention the numerous carmen, maintenance, MoW, clerks and transportation workers . |
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| Satellite, footprint of roundhouse is on the left |
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| Tyrone Hemry commented on his post N & W Round House force in 1906. From the Norfolk Southern archives. |
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| Tyrone Hemry commented on his post N & W Portsmouth round house being taken down via Cherri Howell Trump. |
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| Reid McClure shared Tate Skinner's post of 56 photos, many of them show a flood |
The photos also show a hump yard. According to a 1966 aerial photo, the hump was a little west and north of the roundhouse footprint and the bowl was off to the east.
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| nscorp, cropped |
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| nscorp |
These are obviously some repair shop buildings.
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| Satellite |
Given the kind of parts I found in storage lots around the yard, I concluded that the buildings were a car repair shop. (Note the MoW equipment being stored on a track near the top of this photo.)
This ODOT news release confirms that it is a car repair shop. ORDC = Ohio Rail Development Commission. The only clue I found for the date of the news release was "Pre2013" in the URL for this page.
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This ODOT news release confirms that it is a car repair shop. ORDC = Ohio Rail Development Commission. The only clue I found for the date of the news release was "Pre2013" in the URL for this page.
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| ODOT |
The roundhouse footprint we see today is a small fraction of what it used to be. It looks like it used to be a full circle.
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| Portsmouth Public Library Tinted image of railroad yards, tracks, and buildings. Ohio river and Kentucky hills are in the background. Published by C. A. Ackley, Portsmouth, Ohio. Printed in Germany, “N. & W. Railroad Terminals, Portsmouth, Ohio,” Local History Digital Collection, accessed March 23, 2021, https://www.yourppl.org/history/items/show/914. |
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| Rick Shilling posted Postcard photo of Portsmouth, Ohio N&W Railroad Roundhouse and Yard in it's heyday. Thomas Wentzel shared |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Thomas' share 1930 Greenup Quadrangle @ 1:62,500 |
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