B&O had several yards along the east side of Mill Creek: A Yard, Brighton Yard, Mill Creek Yard, and the Stock Yard. [DonWinter] I've also seen the yard name Midland.
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| Lee Drake posted Super cool image I stumbled across of a view of the B&O yard in Cincy in the early 1940's. Patrick Rose: That’s Hughes High School at the top of the hill, making this between CUT and the Stockyards, I think. JayKay Wirsing: Are those Kahn's stockyards on the east side of the tracks? Parker Rich shared |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Patrick's comment Given the clue about Hughes High School, this photo was probably taken from Hopple Street. https://goo.gl/maps/6De8yj8fzJ1WWhHy9 |
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| Steven M Geisler posted B&O's Pit Engine Facility. Cincinnati, OH. July 1969. Steven M Geisler shared Jon Moore: Where was the old yard located? Rick Westphal: More on the west side of what is now Queensgate. The "Pit" was on the east side of the mains south of RH. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Patrick's comment The yard latter in the photo doesn't match the track configuration in this topo map. But the gantry in the middle of the photo that has "MORE & OHIO R. R." painted on it does match the team tracks that are just south of the jog in Spring Grove Ave. 1953 Cincinnati West Quad @ 24,000 |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on JyaKay' comment Yes, they would be. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/438960294930685252/ 1953 Cincinnati West Quad @ 24,000 [This photo taught me that Kahn's plant was north of Hopple Street. Note B&O's roundhouse. Concordia Sch on the topo is evidently now the DePaul Gristo Rey High School. So the roundhouse used to be on what is a storage yard for Diehl Tool Steel.] |
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| Robert Thomson Flickr B&O Stockyards, Cincinnati, OH Reproduced 35mm Slide Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Cincinnati, OH July 1977 The Baltimore & Ohio yard at Cincinnati was known as the Stockyards. On July 27, 1977 Dad was at the engine facilities at the Stockyards and caught several units there. From left to right are: Southern Pacific U33C 8710 Cotton Belt SD45T-2 9282 Baltimore & Ohio GP40-2 4212 (to CSX 6111) Chesapeake & Ohio GP9 6053 Baltimore & Ohio GP7 5607 |
I go further south along Mill Creek because of the B&O freight house and for completeness of the yards rebuilt as Queensland. Don Winter provides the name Liberty Yard for the yard between their roundhouse and the CUT tracks. The B&O tracks on the west side of Mill Creek was the CH&D. I presume the yard west of the CUT tracks was Southern. One of the east/west yards near the bottom was the B&O LCL (Less than CarLoad) freight operation.
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| 1953 Cincinnati West and 1955 Covington Quads @ 24,000 |
These photos taught me about B&O's freight operation.
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| This is one of those photos. "Historic photo of the completed B&O freight warehouse, now Longworth Hall, in 1920" [I picked this one because it also captured two gasometers and two wood grain elevators. Longworth Hall used to be even longer. The east end was torn down to make way for the interstate highways.] |
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| Bernie Wagenblast posted Former B&O Freight Warehouse Longworth Hall - Cincinnati, Ohio https://www.cincinnati.com/.../the-many-uses.../71292092007/ Jim Kelling: Still standing today and similar to the one at Camden Yard, Baltimore. |
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| Facebook Reel "Longworth Hall Will Never Look the Same Again. Part of Longworth Hall is coming down as construction begins for the new Brent Spence Bridge project. Progress or loss? You decide." |
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| Rob Stone Shoots posted LONGWORTH HALL ISN’T AS LONG AS IT USED TO BE. 📍 Longworth Hall | Cincinnati, Ohio I took this photo today looking down at what is now the eastern end of one of Cincinnati’s most significant historic buildings. Longworth Hall was built in 1904 as the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Freight Terminal. This massive five story building originally stretched 1,277 feet [389m], nearly a quarter mile, and was described as the largest structure of its kind in the world. Freight trains once served this enormous warehouse before it eventually found a new life as the offices, studios and event space we know today. But this isn’t the first time we’ve cut into it. About 150 feet of the original building was removed in the early 1960s during construction of I 75 and the Brent Spence Bridge. A later addition was built onto that end. Now, more than 60 years later, the highway has taken another bite. As part of the new Brent Spence Bridge Corridor project, the later addition was demolished along with roughly 200 feet of the original historic structure. I understand that infrastructure has to change and cities have to grow. I also know the plan includes rebuilding and restoring the newly exposed end of Longworth Hall and reusing some of its original materials. But I still have a hard time looking at this and believing there wasn’t another way. This building survived more than 120 years of Cincinnati history. It survived the railroad era, floods, changing industries and the transformation of the riverfront. We already cut into it once for the interstate, and now we’ve done it again. Longworth Hall is now roughly 321 feet shorter than it was when it was built in 1904. About a quarter of this massive historic building’s original length is now gone. Progress is killing history. What do you think? Was losing this much of Longworth Hall unavoidable, or should more have been done to preserve it? |
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| Brent Spence Bridge Corridor posted To make room for the approach to the new companion bridge, a portion of Longworth Hall was recently taken down. But the bricks are not gone. Crews are carefully reclaiming them from the demolition, and those original bricks will be used to reconstruct the east facade, restoring it to the appearance captured in this image |
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| Buc Buelterman commented on the above post |
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| Drew Burkhardt posted B&O Warehouse in downtown Cincinnati Ohio. Bill Doering: This is what is left. Part of it was torn down for the I-75 bridge. Timothy Garvey: The high water mark of the 1937 flood was a brick painted yellow five rows from the top. It was visible to the naked eye until maybe 30 years ago. Jim Kelling shared B&O freight station in Cincinnati (similar to the one in Camden Yards, Baltimore) |
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| Chris Mayhew commented on Drew's post It is about to become shorter by 204 feet. The creation of a companion/second I-75 bridge will necessitate the demolition of the portion in this photo. The remainder, still quite a long building, will remain. The article was one I wrote for the Cincinnati Railroad Club’s newsletter (photo attached). |
I read Facebook comments, which I now cannot find, that identified the locomotive generating smoke in Lee's photo as a NYC Hudson. I had noticed that the B&O and NYC paralleled each other on the north side of town. The cartographer put the label "BALTIMORE" on the connector to B&O/CH&D (Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton), but most of those tracks east of that label are also B&O. It is not clear how NYC thread its way through the B&O yard.
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| 1953 Cincinnati West Quad @ 24,000 |
And they both parallel each other west of town along the Ohio River, but now the B&O is south of the NYC instead of north of it.
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| 1955 Covington Quad @ 24,000 |
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