| Posted by cnw4007 on September 19, 2018 | |
Is that the turntable still lurking on the dirt? Filled in from all the years or no use. Probably pretty beat up though if it's buried like that.
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Yes, that is the turntable structure. I'm not sure who filled it in, but there were markings on the ground for the pit that would indicate plans to reexcavate it.
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Nice find and thanks for sharing! It's good that someone is trying to save this railroad structure so that it doesn't disappear into the past.
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| Posted by Josef on September 20, 2018 | |
Fantastic !
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| Posted by xBNSFer on September 21, 2018 | |
That seems really unusual on multiple counts. Seems odd that the Lehigh Valley would put a major yard seemingly in the middle of nowhere, and not far from its western terminus at Buffalo. And Lehigh Valley was known for a lot of small yards rather than for big yards, which makes "one of the largest" yards in the northeast pretty anomalous as well. What gives? Just a place to sort traffic for western connections in a place with cheaper land?
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I was to Manchester once a few years after abandonment. The yard office was wide open and LV paperwork was strewn everywhere. Nice overview, Joe.
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| Posted by kchubb on September 25, 2018 | |
I found this short video about it with a couple of historic photos of the yard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4-mE6c7SHM
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