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Two X-PRR PC GP-30's flat switching in former New Haven Hump Yard. Two retarder operator towers remain although switches are all hand throw now and hump has been "flattened" (my term). Also, P&W 164 leased D&H RS-3 is in yard doing an interchange. Does anyone have info on how many class tracks there were in the "bowl" that they could share?

Photographed by Bruce Nelson, September 6, 1973.
Added to the photo archive by Bruce Nelson, October 29, 2023.
Railroad: Penn Central.

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Another of a great series chronicling the immediate post New Haven world and the short lived and unappreciated PC in New England.

Posted by Ron DeFilippo on 2023-10-30 08:10:37


According to this 1920 vintage map of the design of NYNH&H's Northrup Avenue Yard in Providence, it looks like there may have been 7 wb class tracks and 17 eb class tracks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northup_Avenue_Yard#/media/File:Railway_Age_Northup_Yard_Map.jpg
Here's a link to a detailed description of the yard posted on Wikipedia that includes a circa 1970 photo of the yard at the Cemetery Ave bridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northup_Avenue_Yard

Posted by John Barlow on 2023-10-30 09:25:43


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