Towns and Nature: Baltimore, MD: 1911 Pennsy Orangeville Railyard

(Satellite, the land has been repurposed by a ready-mix company)

This was Pennsy's engine servicing yard. A classification yard, Bayview, was just east of here.

This locomotive terminal was built in 1911 and handled what had been serviced at Mt. Vernon, Biddle Street and Bay View. [American Engineer and Railway Journal, Volumne 85 - January, 1911 via navpooh-map]

Rick Shilling posted
Undated Pennsylvania Railroad Orangeville Yard Map, Roundhouse and Turntable photos, Baltimore, Maryland.

Digitally Zoomed
[See navpooh-map for a description of how a locomotive moved through this facility. But I think the incomming locomotives enter from the right instead of from the left as stated on that page.]

Rick Shilling posted
Undated Pennsylvania Railroad photos of Ash Pit and Hoist Apparatus and former location of Orangeville Roundhouse and Yard, Baltimore, Maryland.

When Rick's source, RailfanGuides, accessed the above satellite image, the roundhouse foundation was still present. It has now been repurposed.

Satellite

1953 Baltimore East Quad @ 24,000

"The coaling station, which is of timber construction throughoutm is of the Holman - Barrett type as designed by Roberts & Schaefer Co., who erected it. The elevating equipment consists of a pair of 2-½ ton Holman buckets and the distributing means consist of a pair of Barrett automatic distributing cars which work in time with the Holman buckets. The total storage capacity of the plant is 1,200 tons of coal and 100 tons of sand. Coal is received on two tracks with a receiving hopper under each. Both hoppers feed to the one pair of Holman buckets. Interposed between each hopper and the buckets is a pair of Barrett revolving measuring feeders so arranged that the buckets are taking coal from one hopper only at a time. The elevating buckets and distributing cars not only handle coal, but also handle the wet sand, delivering it into a large overhead bin. This bin has a concrete floor and underneath are two stove dryers in a fireproof compartment. The sand gravitates through the dryers over screens into hoppers underneath, from which it is elevated to three storage tanks overhead. These in turn deliver the sand to three tracks. There is also a compartment for coke and for hard coal. The plant is electrically operated and serves three tracks with coal and sand." [American Engineer and Railway Journal, Volumne 85 - January, 1911 via navpooh-map]