New: (Satellite, it's now Progress Rail Services and Lally Pipe & Tube. )
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| Mark Hinsdale posted "Shoving the Hump" A pair of Louisville & Nashville GE U25C's, originally built for California's Oro Dam Constructors Railroad in 1963, are working what appears to be the tail end of a Penn Central manifest train over the hump at Decoursey, Kentucky in March, 1976. The sprawling complex alongside the Licking River, was all but abandoned in the early era of CSX, in favor of the newer Chessie System facility at Queensgate, across the Ohio River in Cincinnati OH. Today only a handful of tracks remain here, used mostly for storage, transloading and staging for local industries. March, 1976 photo by Mark Hinsdale Mark Hinsdale shared |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Mark's post I see there are two yard towers still standing in the old yard. 39°00'37.3"N 84°28'55.8"W |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Mark's post The new yard contained a turntable, but according to topo maps, it did not have a roundhouse. 38°59'59.2"N 84°28'01.9"W |
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| Rick Shilling posted 1959 Louisville and Nashville Railroad Roundhouse, Turntable and Coaling Tower at DeCoursey, Kentucky Yard. E.G. Baker Photo, Jim Herron Collection. |
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| 1970 Newport and 1981 Alexandria Quadrangles @ 1:24,000 |
According to topo maps the new (southern) yard was built between 1961 and 1970.
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| 1961 Newport and 1961 Alexandria Quadrangles @ 1:24,000 |
According to a Apr 1993 Google Earth image, the hump yard was in the center of the new southern yard.
This closeup shows that they replaced the old steam engine servicing area with some tracks when they built the new yard.
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| 1961 Newport Quadrangle @ 1:24,000 |
The turntable I found on a contemporary satellite image in the new yard was not for a roundhouse. It was just a turntable.
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| 1961 Newport and Alexandria Quadrangles @ 1:24,000 |
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