i am looking for a layout or pic of all of the conway yard in pittsburg if anyone has a info on it please let me know.
looking for.. layout of Conway yards
- Thread starter 13Mtrainer
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Hey 13M,
With a few web searches, I turned up the following on Conway Yard in Pittsburgh, PA.
http://kc.pennsyrr.com/art/images/1958.jpeg
^ This is a artist's picture of the yard, circe 1950's. From what I can see, looks like any other railyard during the Pennsy area.
As you may know, the PRR merged with the NYC, hence PennCentral. Eventually, PennCentral joined four other Northeast RR's to form Conrail. Conrail now owns the yard today.
I, personally, couldn't find a map of the yard, or any detailed photos. I did find:
http://www.dementia.org/~patrick/images/Conwaybldg.jpg
^ The yard building, from 1995.
www.trainweb.org/ eastpenn/cleve.html
^ A site with some UP and Conrail freight locos at Conway.
Hope this helps! :thumb:
With a few web searches, I turned up the following on Conway Yard in Pittsburgh, PA.
http://kc.pennsyrr.com/art/images/1958.jpeg
^ This is a artist's picture of the yard, circe 1950's. From what I can see, looks like any other railyard during the Pennsy area.
As you may know, the PRR merged with the NYC, hence PennCentral. Eventually, PennCentral joined four other Northeast RR's to form Conrail. Conrail now owns the yard today.
I, personally, couldn't find a map of the yard, or any detailed photos. I did find:
http://www.dementia.org/~patrick/images/Conwaybldg.jpg
^ The yard building, from 1995.
www.trainweb.org/ eastpenn/cleve.html
^ A site with some UP and Conrail freight locos at Conway.
Hope this helps! :thumb:
Here's a link to the Terraserver site. What looks like an aerial photo of a rail yard on the right side of the river is the rail yard. Click on it to zoom in and use the pan function to move around. It's not too clear but you'll get an idea of the layout.
Wayne
Wayne
cool thanks a lot guys. i am from pittsburg and from what i hear in the 60's and 70's it was the largest push button yard in the us!
Chessie6459
Gauge Oldtimer
Here are a couple links to photo's of Conway Yard. Hope these can help you.
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/tr_cr_conway.jpg
http://prr.railfan.net/documents/DirectorsTour/ConwayYard.jpg
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/tr_cr_conway.jpg
http://prr.railfan.net/documents/DirectorsTour/ConwayYard.jpg
WOW, I don't think you could model that in HO on a football field. It would be fun to try though.
jawdrop Chessie 6459 thanks for the pics links now when I put a shed over the north 40 I can have a track plan!