Conrail, Conway Yards

[Patrick_Cercone]

Maybe I have just missed it, but I dont see anything for Conrails Largest yard. Conway Pa is the largest (or was) the largest freight yard in the country or even world. I cant remember, but its huge. Has anyone ever tried to tackle this?

thx

 

[Patrick_Cercone]

Here is a crappy picture. Its the largest double hump in the world I guess.

 

[Patrick_Cercone]

Man I tell you what. With a little searching you can find anything. This is the wrecker my dad operated for 20 some years out of Conway Yards. I guess its at the museam now.

 

[CSX5220]

Largest Yard??

Hi,

Forgive me, how big (Length) is the yard? Im usely pretty good at remembeing things like this but somehow I forgot...

Selkirk Yard is close to 6 miles long-
80 bowl tracks
11 reciving tracks
3 fast freight tracks
13 (total) depart tracks (plus the 3 fast freights)
Just for Info

regards,:wave:
Mike S.

 

[Patrick_Cercone]

I dont know any of those stats, but it goes from Baden to Freedom. It has to be close to 6 miles.

 

[buckbriar]

Here is a crappy picture. Its the largest double hump in the world I guess.

I believe that honor goes to UP's North Platte,Nebraska yard.

 

[Patrick_Cercone]

Im sure its not the largest yard. It has something to do with its classification. That picture shows about 1/2 of the yard.

 

[Patrick_Cercone]

I found some info. Conway Yards was the largest Push Button yard in the world during the 60's and 70's. It is 4 miles long.

I also found this link page with a bunch of old PRR pictures. Its sweet!

http://prr.railfan.net/documents/ConwayYard/

 

[SVAndrei]

Man I tell you what. With a little searching you can find anything. This is the wrecker my dad operated for 20 some years out of Conway Yards. I guess its at the museam now.

Can somebody model this? It's a fine piece of equipment!

 

[Mouse84]

Under Conrail, Conway was the largest. I've only been to Selkirk once and that was to take my conductor test, I used to work in and out of Conway and went to engineer school there, also. If I can find my old timetables, I could give you the length.

 

[bandopacific]

Don't miss these goldmines:
http://www.multimodalways.org/archives/rrs/CR/CR.html
http://www.railsandtrails.com/

 

[bandopacific]

And for historic topos:
http://historical.maptech.com/

Geophil tells me the old maps have unknown co-ordinates, but the info is great nonetheless

 

[Patrick_Cercone]

Thats awesome thanks!

 

[Patrick_Cercone]

This is all I have found. I dont know if you could model it from these or not.

 

[SVAndrei]

How about submitting this to the Content Creation Thread? Perhaps someone more experienced can have a go at it? l hardly know how to reskin a loco. Wheathering is a mystery right now for me. :hehe:

 

[Glenethson]

http://www.grownorthplatte.org/library/154/baileyyards.jpg


Bailey yard is the largest hump yard in the world i think

 

[SVAndrei]

Judging by the photo, i think Convay is much bigger