Washington, DC: Railyards (Amtrak/Ivy City and Brentwood)

Amtrak/Ivy City Yard: (Satellite)

Brentwood Coaling Towers: (Satellite)

Ivy City Coaling Tower and Roundhouse: (Satellite, this has been totally rebuilt to serve electric locomotives)

WMATA/B&O Brentwood Yard: (Satellite)

Ivy City served the locomotives for the railroads that used Union Station. (B&O, C&O, RF&P, SRR, PRR and Washington Terminal switchers. The PRR engines were mainly electrics.)

This is where I found the coaling towers.

Street View, Aug 2021

It looks like there was a big and a little coaling tower.

Street View

Hover Solutions, Oc t2019

 

3D Satellite

Marty Bernard posted
3. B&O next to Washington D.C. yards, slide purchased from Blackhawk Films. Bill Howes collection
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I think Bill took the photo from the New York Avenue Bridge. In his photo, they must be removing the T Street viaduct. The maintenance facility and coaling towers were evidently added after Bill's photo was taken.

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Tom Luna, Jul 2022

I did not realize that the B&O had these yards. But the B&O has the "spokes" to the North and East, so they must have had both of these yards. I had assumed that Pennsy had the spoke to the North as part of its NEC.I learned that Pennsy had a spoke to the East just south of B&O's eastern spoke until it got to Montana Ave. And Pennsy had a spoke to the south of Union Station in a tunnel. B&O trains evidently terminated here, so they needed extensive yard space.

1951 Washington West and 1979 Washington East Quads @ 24,000

EarthExplorer; Jul 5, 1951 @ 8,000; AR1DCWAS0010005

Ivy City Locomotive Service Facility

Rick Smith posted
A mixed-breed trio of B&O and C&O stags engage in fixes at the neighborhood watering hole and coaling tower, while a "foreigner" appears to look on from the sanding rack, at the jointly used Ivy City locomotive facility - Washington, DC, 1950.
[photo - © District DoT, Leonard W. Rice phgr]
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Dennis DeBruler commented on Rick's post
No wonder the tower could serve six tracks. The two turntables would indicate that they moved a lot of locomotives into and out of the roundhouse.
In this 1951 aerial photo, I include the streets of Fairview, Kendall and Fenwick along the south side to help correlate the location of this photo with today's satellite images.
Lee Higgins: Dennis DeBruler I've never seen this view before! That was a beautiful track plan. Ivy City was my favorite train watching spot and I also worked at The Hecht Co warehouse, the structure at the right casting the long shadow.

Carl Venzke posted
Something I have not seen before - Twin turntables at Ivy City engine terminal for Washington D.C. Union Station about 1940
James McDonald The date is 1943. It's an Alfred Eisenstaedt photo for Life Magazine. He's also the photographer that took the famous "kiss" photo on V-J Day in Times Square. That's an RF&P 300 series pacific on the near turntable.Dennis DeBruler One did not feed the other. It was basically two 180-degree roundhouses with their turntables setting next to each other. So it doesn't give you more roundhouse, but it does double the traffic capacity in and out of the stalls. Look about here on the 1951 Historical Aerials map: https://www.google.com/.../@38.9166559,-76.../data=!3m1!1e3

Tim Starr posted
Layout of the Washington Terminal Company roundhouses in northeast Washington DC (in a section called Ivy City), 1922. As far as I know, only 2 locomotive terminals were set up like this in the United States: Jersey City and this one. (Railroad Freight Transportation magazine)

Neo Haven: Ivy City was a fascinating place because it serviced steam from several railroads including B&O, C&O, RF&P, SRR, PRR and Washington Terminal switchers. The PRR engines were mainly electrics.