Roundhouse: (Satellite)
CoalingTower?: (3D Satellite)
Mike Noble posted three photos with the comment: "At the west end of the New York Central’s Dewitt yard were the main steam support facilities. All that remains of the roundhouse are the stall floors. Vintage photo CNY Chapter, NRHS"
Mike Noble shared
Ralph Balfoort: Spent many an hour in the '60s at the grade crossing just west of this. I forget the name of the street at that time; it's now been replaced by a bridge on a rerouted Burnet Ave.
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| 3 Leland Dean Fultz: It appears there were two roundhouses at one time. Mike Noble: Leland Dean Fultz three, actually. Robert Aumann: Mike Noble I noticed three as well but you can just barely make out where the third one once sat. Thanks for sharing this. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Ralph's comment Thanks. That was the clue I needed to find it. https://goo.gl/maps/VNSGLZeZJJPNbcv39 I wonder if this was the coaling tower. https://www.google.com/maps/@43.062017,-76.0716027,75a,35y,39.49t/data=!3m1!1e3 |
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| Michael Shufelt posted A good view of the hump at Dewitt Yard 1980's |
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| 1943 Syracuse East Quad @ 31,680 |
In the topo map, it looks like they built a bigger roundhouse west of the original roundhouse and removed the turntable for the original roundhouse. By 1956, the original roundhouse was gone and over half of the replacement was gone.
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| EarthExplorer: May 5, 1956 @ 24,000; AR1VKX000010128 |
They didn't convert the steam locomotive servicing area to service diesels. Instead, they built a new facility in the middle of the yard complete with a wye to turn the engines.
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| Satellite |
The railyard is still being used.
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| Street View, Sep 2021 |
Part of the west side of the yard has been converted to an intermodal yard.
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| 1938 Syracuse East Quad @ 24,000 |
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