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

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