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| Randy Szucs posted My home before they scrapped 36 tracks out of the center of the yard. Tom Weightman: Lots of ladders! Ronald Galena: Tom Weightman 7 groups of 9 tracks. [800 cars per shift with three humper crews.] |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Rany's post I grabbed a satellite image while it is still showing all of the tracks. |
3 of 9 photos posted by Paul Bauer with the comment: "Some nice shots coming home. Especially- three for the train corps!!!"
Brian R. Wroblewski: The stand out for me is all the missing track in Frontier yard. They ripped out so much of it that it took me an xtra second to ID what I was looking at.
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| Tim Baldwin posted Frontier Yard - Bailey Ave tower - circa 1982 Ron Held: West end carknockers shanty just beyond the tower. [Back before the PSR railroads had not laid off many of their car inspectors.] |
WESTERN NEW YORK RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY posted thirteen photos with the comment: "The Hump Tower at Frontier Yard in Buffalo was demolished over the past couple of days and the hump itself is being removed as well. I am glad to report that the WNYRHS was able to save and preserve the control panels from the tower that controlled the hump and the 63 yard tracks in the yard that the NYC built in 1957. The control boards are now in storage at the Heritage DiscoveRY Center Buffalo."
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| 2 Steve Lucas: Looks like the way that General Railway Signal would have built this in the late 1950's. WESTERN NEW YORK RAILWAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: Yes it is a GRS machine |
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| 3 Summer 2016 Jeff Marx: After my classroom training in Atlanta, this was my view of the very first day of on the job training in Frontier yard in 2004 as a "switch tender" trainee. At that time there was a Hump yardmaster and switch tender in the Hump tower. The unauthorized furnishings were a TV, radio, Gas grill with many a good meals, a plethora of girly magazines. And I'll admit when this building closed, I saved the Vargus drawings of the pin up girls! |
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| 11 This panel controlled the routing of the cars to one of the 63 yard tracks. |
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| 12 This panel was shown in operation in a NYC Publicity film, Three Giant Steps. Check out the film on Youtube. This panel's operation is shown at the 7:00 Minute mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs3FQMOFDh8 |
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| Ron Smolen posted Buffalo CSX Frontier Yard in the City of Buffalo last night [Dec 1, 2022]. Jim Polaski: I woulda thought the two locomotives would have won that one! [That was my thought as well. That hopper must be loaded.] |
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