Youngstown, OH: P&LE Gateway Railyard

Railyard West: (Satellite)

Railyard East: (Satellite)

Turntable Pit: (Satellite)

This yard was so large that it was in several Ohio towns. So I went with the best known town in the title.

The P&LE interchanged with the B&O and NYC here. "The Gateway Yard has sat quietly since 1993, when operations came to a halt after the P&LE was absorbed into CSX. They had decided to shut down the yard due to the closure of many steel mills into the early 90s." [ArchitecuralAfterlife, this webpage has some photos of the yard tower.]

Note the yard tower on the right.

Robby Beck posted
1978 Gateway departure and hump yard. Haze from the mills, sadly all gone.
The left 2 tracks B&O New Castle Sub, all to the right of that is gone.
Jerry Lambert: It was a premier yard in its day. It was really automated for its time.

They have yet to bother to fill in the turntable pit.

Satellite

 

Tim Starr posted
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie RR 120-foot turntable being installed at the East Youngstown roundhouse in 1948. (University of Pittsburgh)

Robby Beck commented on this post
P&LE track chart Gateway Yard, Youngstown OH

Ben Ruszkowski posted
Gateway yard shortly after opening. Car shop building still being completed.
1957 I believe

Michael Maitland: Believe this was one of the NYC Perlman yard projects along with Avon, Elkhart and Selkirk.

Jeffrey Cramer posted
It’s an old Christmas postcard featuring the Gateway Yard “Hump” and main lines at Lowellville/Struthers, Ohio.

Jeffrey Cramer posted
Gateway Yard “Hump”!

Robby Beck posted
Hump an car shop at Gateway yard

Evan Petak: Went by the other day they placed quite a few new tracks down and it’s full of storage cars now.

John Peischl posted two photos with the comment: "Photo credit to Rich Melvin. Ore train and Detroit Edison coal train at Gateway Yard."

Robby Beck: coming off the LE&E for the departure yard

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Roger Smith posted five photos with the comment: "Gateway Yard in the last few years."

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Joe Lowry posted six images with the comment: "I bought this booklet on eBay last week and it arrived this weekend. It's a beautiful 16-ish page booklet detailing the operating of Gateway Yard. If I had to guess, it was a promotional item from the sales team to highlight yard operations to customers. I've included a few of the pages here, and if time permits in the next week, will copy over the whole booklet."

Michael Maitland: Can recall Perlman was trying to drag the NYC into the new way of doing things - his yards were - Selkirk, Gateway, Buckeye and Elkhart. 2 of the 4 still vital.

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And the yard is so big that I needed two 1950 aerial photos to cover it.

Northwest; AR1KM0000030026

Southeast; AR1KM0000010180

Frank Jacobs III posted seven images with the comment: "Nice brochure of Gateway Yard."

Chad Zemba: Tower still stands along with the car shop and a couple smaller buildings. All pretty much completely gutted but still cool nonetheless.

Michael Maitland: Thanks for posting - one of Perlman's major yard rebuilds/new builds. (Selkirk, Buckeye, Avon, Elkhart were the others if I remember correctly.)

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Lane D. Lawrence commented on Frank's post