Nampa, ID: 1903,1976 Museum/UP Depot, Railyards, Yard Tower & Office and Roundhouse

Depot: (Satellite)

Yard Tower & Office: (Satellite)

Roundhouse: (Satellite)

Street View, Aug 2015

Street View, Oct 2012

As expected, the roundhouse has been replaced by a building designed to service diesel locomotives, but the turntable has survived along with some remnants of the roundhouse foundation.

Satellite

Both railyards have retained most of their tracks. This map also made it easy to find the depot.

1958/60 Nampa Quad @ 24,000

James Cook, Feb 2024

The museum includes a static display of a caboose, steam crane and semaphore signal.

Street View, Aug 2015

Joe, Aug 2024

Timothy Bird, Jul 2025

Timothy Bird, Jul 2025

The museum contains a lot of railroad stuff, but it also has other stuff.

Tammy Espino, Feb 2018

Janice Tsai, Jul 2019

Klamath Fall, OR: BNSF/GN Yard Tower, Amtrak/SP Depot and UP/SP Yard Tower & Roundhouse

BNSF/GN Yard Tower: (Satellite)

Amtrak/SP Depot: (Satelite)

UP/SP Yard Office: (Satellite)

UP/SP Roundhouse: (Satellite)

BNSF/GN Yard Tower

Street View, May 2012

RRAdventure posted
BNSF— in Klamath Falls, OR.

Amtrak/SP Depot

Street View, May 2019

RRAdventure posted
Southern Pacific Depot— at Klamath Falls station.

UP/SP Yard Office

Street View, May 2019

RRAdventure posted
Union Pacific— in Klamath Falls, OR.

UP/SP Roundhouse

They filled in the pits but left the foundation. We can easily tell that two of the stalls were longer than the other stalls.

Satellite

Overview

The bridge that crosses Lake Ewauna (Klamath River) to serve the industries on the west side of the river still exists. Both the UP and BNSF railyards are as big today, if not bigger, than they were in the 1950s.

1957/65 Klamath Falls Quad @ 62,500

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New York, NY: NYCTA Coney Island Yard Tower, Railyard & Backshop

Yard: (Satellite)

Museum: (Satellite)

New York Transit Museum posted four photos with the comment:

These #NYTMCollection photographs from our Yard Collection show the Coney Island Yard in 1969. They were taken by the NYCTA Construction Division and include various rolling stock, as well as views of the then-brand-new Coney Island Yard Tower, which still stands today.

The interior photos show the Tower’s relay room and yard control panel. A few years after these photos were taken, the Stillwell Avenue Master Control Panel was installed in the Tower. Today, this building is known by several names including Coney Island Yard Tower, Stillwell Master Tower, Coney Island Master Tower, and Tower B.

The Coney Island Yard is the main railroad storage yard within the Coney Island Complex, which is one of the largest transportation facilities in North America. Occupying 74 acres in Southern Brooklyn, the Complex is connected to the main #NYCsubway system on the BMT Sea Beach, West End, Brighton, and Culver Lines, and can store approximately 880 train cars combined at a time.

Have you visited the Coney Island Complex?

#TransitTrivia: Can you name all of the subway car models shown?

John Antola: This Tower B replaced the original Tower B which was demolished. It incorporated Tower A interlocking which is still there as you enter the spur. The interlocking at 86 St was reconfigured. By putting the lead onto the Sea Beach line which was off the spur track and moved down to 270 ball under the lead off the West End Line. As a kid back in that time that were building the Tower. Riding to Stillwell Ave on N Train We single tracked on E2 Track between 86 St and Stillwell Ave. It was the old interlocking and you couldn't cross between E1 and E2 Track like you do today so we picked up a pull Motorman at 86 St and we went into the yard as far as where 270 ball is today and the pull Motorman pulled the train back into E4 Track at 86 St and got off and then we went SB from E4 Track to E2 Track to Stillwell Ave.

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Gerry Louis commented on the above post
Old Tower B

The tower is near the center of this view. 

Street View, Nov 2024

The tower is on the left and the backshop is on the right.

Street View, Dec 2021

1966/68 Coney Island Quad @ 24,000

Patrick O'Connor posted 16 photos with the comment: "Signal tower at the NY Transit Museum in Brooklyn."

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Elmira, NY: Lost/Pennsy Southport Yard and Kendall Tower

Railyard: (Satellite, the land west of Clemens Center Pkwy. The road repurposed railroad property.)

Roundhouse: (Satellite, Kinyon Street was connected to the parkway after the roundhouse was removed.)

Tower: (Satellite, again, Clemens Center Pkwy has been built on the railroad property.)

Center for Railroad Photography & Art posted
A classic Jim Shaughnessy night scene for #WorkerWednesday: The Pennsylvania Railroad operator at Kendall Tower—at the southern end of Southport Yard in Elmira, New York—hands up orders to the crew of I1-class 2-10-0 locomotive 4587 in 1957. (Shaughnessy-N-PRR-0147)

Bob Hinkle: Hands up orders? The hoop is empty , yet the tower guy is still holding it. Great picture in any event.

Ethan Williams commented on Bob's comment
Orders are clamped to the hoop compared to being strung across in the Y-shaped hoops.
[I gather from some comments on other posts that the crew would remove the orders from the hoop and then throw the hoop out the window. Later, the tower operator would have to walk along the track to retrieve the hoop. I'm sure operators preferred the Y-shaped hoops.]

1953/55 Elmira Quad @ 24,000

This wasn't a good photo, so...

May 29, 1944 @ 16,300; AR1AW0000140105

...I got this one. The roundhouse on the north end is obvious. The tower on the south side is not obvious. I'm guessing it was near a tree in the northeast quadrant of the tracks and Caton Ave. That is consistent with the photo.

Apr 19, 1948 @ 16,400; AR1FP0000050052

Russell, KY: Brewery/C&O Depot, (RU) Cabin (Tower) and Caboose

Depot: (Satellite)

Tower: (Satellite)

C&O used the term "cabin" instead of "tower." I labeled this tower as "towerYard" instead of "towerMain" because it is at the east end of the Russell Yard.

Wow, the cabin is extant. In this view, the cabin is on the right, the depot is in the middle and a caboose is on the left.

Street View, Oct 2015

Steven J. Brown posted
Nickel Plate 765 and Pere Marquette 1225 at the C&O depot and RU Tower in Russell, Kentucky - August 4, 1991. The pair are heading to Huntington for the NRHS Convention.
Steven J. Brown shared

Jon Roma: Even with a structure like this, the C&O referred to its interlocking stations as "cabins." This location is thus "RU Cabin." Many of them retained this designation long after they were remote-controlled and the structures were demolished. As far as I know, RU Cabin has survived since its closure.

Pam M, Jun 2018

Mike Bartram, Sep 2023

This aerial taught me where to look. The roundhouses are in Russell Yard.

Apr 15, 1957 @ 24,000; AR1VPP000010125