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Satellite)
Train Watching Platform: (
3D Satellite, it even has some parking spaces)
Dale Proctor
posted two photos with the comment: "View from the hump tower at Norris Yard, Irondale, 1993. Edit: Inbound shot added for posterity. 🙂"
Dewayne Waters: No hump yard any more, flat switching only.
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Timothy Carr commented on Dale's post
Inbound |
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Dale commented on Timothy's comment
have an inbound shot, too…
I think I’ll add it to the original post. |
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Timothy Carr commented on Dale's post
Inside the control tower. Look at that 80's technology! |
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Timothy Carr commented on Dale's post
Here is another classic! |
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Timothy Carr commented on Dale's post
Same view, February 13, 1984. |
The train watching platform includes a preserved caboose.
In 1959 they had already changed the locomotive servicing facility from steam to diesel. But that is when I noticed the turntable still exists.
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| 1959 Irondale Quad @ 24,000 |
The next oldest topo map is all the way back to 1907 and the yard has yet to be built. I checked my 1928 RR Atlas and Southern had bought the Alabama Great Southern by then.
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| 1907 Leeds Quad @ 62,500 |
Parking them sideways is not an effective way to increase the capacity of a yard.
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Rail Labor for Coordinated Bargaining posted
It’s derailment day Friday [Mar 31, 2023] at NS. Irondale yard
Ted Gregory: Good gracious how fast were they moving IN A YARD to cause that mess?
Of course we had a derailment across town about 20 years ago where a 190 car cut with no air was being shoved towards Boyles Hump and a knuckle broke. They lined the runaway cut into a standing train.
Ted Gregory shared |
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